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

It shows how the arts can help as well in dealing with trauma, creating something out of something so horrible as a bullet. I agree with the witnesses in that we do have a great tradition in Ireland of volunteerism and the GAA is a huge example. We have the Maynooth community first responders in my own community who are all volunteers. As we use our political capital in the world to speak out about things we believe are wrong, like the war on Gaza, for example, and the war in Ukraine, we can build it up by something like what the witnesses are suggesting.

Everyone knows about Médecins Sans Frontières. There is something we could do with that formal arrangement for medics to volunteer the witnesses are talking about .

In this defence committee, we often deal with the awful side of war so today's meeting was a bit more positive.