Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Discussion

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have any knowledge of it. I will come back to the Deputy on it. I will mention the humanitarian aid projects. We have had some contact on the paper the Deputy spoke about. If there are Irish Aid agencies working underground in mission areas, we will get more involved in it. I have spoken to military management about it. They go hand in hand. We cannot have development aid without security. Development aid needs to follow up after securing a country to develop it. There are some Irish Aid agencies out there which we can develop a closer relationship with. It is something I have spoken about. I have not done a whole lot about it but I have spoken about it. If the Deputy has any ideas about how we could do it, I would be delighted to hear about them privately.

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