Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our visitors. Like my colleagues, I thank them for the work they do and note, as the previous speaker did, the risk and dangers their people experience. I will make an attempt to cover all areas or facets of the presentation. Mr. Rajasingham spoke about Afghanistan. I was invited recently to speak at a seminar on Afghanistan so I got to know a little more about it did previously while I was preparing. Mr. Rajasingham said OCHA managed to get access to aid for women and girls despite the fact they are excluded from public life, effectively, by virtue of the regime. Will he expand on that and on the need in Afghanistan?

Related to that, I felt when I did my study of Afghanistan for the seminar I was attending that there is now a case for the West removing sanctions because the regime is not beatable, is being supported by all its neighbours and the only people suffering under the sanctions are ordinary people. Insofar as Mr. Rajasingham's role allows him to comment on that, I ask him to do so?