Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte

2:00 am

Mr. John Whyte:

It is. That is the reality. We have had it in waves. Obviously, the lack of proper nutrition, the lack of proper hygiene, the lack of proper infrastructure and the lack of anything that you can call a dignified life has led, of course, to a deterioration in public health. With people living in close proximity in very unhygienic circumstances, there is a susceptibility to all sorts of water-borne infections, to respiratory illnesses and to all sorts of disease. It has happened many times and it will happen again this coming winter.

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