Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. I could not agree more. The situation in Yemen is the world's largest humanitarian crisis with 22 million people in need. Ireland has been and remains absolutely committed to supporting the humanitarian effort in Yemen. We provided €4 million to the country-based pool for Yemen. The fund is a significant contributor to the UN's central emergency response fund which allocated more than €50 million to Yemen. Given the significant risks of the humanitarian situation declining even further, we propose allocating an additional €1 million in 2019 to bring our total funding to €5 million. I referred earlier to conflict resolution. Ireland's expertise in that regard is being brought to bear and will continue to be used to work on the root causes of this horrendous humanitarian crisis in Yemen.