Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I also thank Mr. Rajasingham. He is very welcome to Ireland and to our committee. I would also like to give my condolences towards the families of more than 100 UN workers who have lost their lives. The committee's brief also covers the Department of Defence. The 122nd and the 123rd battalion of peacekeepers are currently in rotation in south Lebanon. We all have skin in the game, as such. I thank Mr. Rajasingham for the work the UN does locally there.

My colleagues referred to people losing interest in conflicts. That reflects a polarisation of politics and short attention spans and all that. What is Mr. Rajasingham's experience of this when things are happening far away? How does he intend to work on that in terms of the 20 top donor countries that he mentioned? Yemen was not mentioned at all in his opening statement. We have discussed Yemen at this committee and certainly at the climate committee as well. Perhaps Mr. Rajasingham would speak to that.