Mr. Dominic Crowley:

Looking at the humanitarian aid budgets for the last number of years, the US has been responsible for providing between 43% and 47% of all humanitarian funding going to the UN system. The European Commission and Germany have been sort of neck and neck as the next most generous donors. They are each giving 9%. There is nothing that will replace the 83% cut that we have seen from the US Government this year. The concern is, and I go back slightly to Deputy Ó Murchú's phrasing, which I thought was very good, it is a maintained disaster. We are facing a situation where this year is catastrophic for very many people but next year may be worse. I am reminded of the discussions in the UK where they put a commitment of 0.7% of GNI into law and then they cut it to 0.5% The Labour Party stood on an electoral platform that included a commitment to get back to 0.7% and now it had cut it to 0.3%. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is saying it was possible to cut from 0.7% to 0.5% and still maintain the structure and the framework. Going from 0.5% to 0.3%, that can no longer be done. The UK is going to have to cut. As in Ms McKenna's reference from this afternoon's discussions with Filippo Grandi, the UNHCR is cutting education from all camps because it cannot sustain it. Therefore, nothing is going to fill the gap. The question is how we can mitigate against the extremes of the cuts we are seeing. I am sorry that I am not giving the Chairman a figure, which he wanted.