Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is certainly a bleak picture they show. It is unbelievable to think that hundreds of thousands of euros worth of food is going bad and thousands of people are starving in the world. I just cannot get my head around that. Mr. Crowley stated that Concern was losing a lot of staff, which I am sure will affect its programmes in many different countries. I see that EU global assistance last year was €92.8 billion. That was approximately 40% of total global assistance. Where did the other 57% come from? Was that coming from the United States? This is just to get some idea of how Concern will make up the difference because it is a fierce gap to try to fill.