David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Apologies for being late, but I was speaking in the Dáil Chamber. It is very hard to believe this is happening in 2024 and that such awful wars are occurring on our Continent, in Gaza and in Sudan, which is beyond appalling as well. There is no sign of any of them finishing and they are, in fact, getting worse. A lot of my questions have been asked so I am not going to repeat them. One thing strikes me and that is the long-term psychiatric and psychological trauma that young people and children will endure as a result of the horrors they are experiencing at the moment. Could I get the witnesses' thoughts on that?

A lot of the other questions have been asked and I congratulate the witnesses on the work they are doing. We have to do all we can to support them, Chair, with the three asks they have here. What is the long-term psychological and psychiatric impact of what people are experiencing on the ground out there? I know that sometimes when people from Ireland go abroad and help, they are impacted by what they have seen and they need might support when they come back. That is an issue I wanted to highlight.