Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

5:05 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Is the Minister of State satisfied with the degree to which the international community has been exercised regarding the importance of providing adequate backup and support for the host refugee countries such as Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey given what the Minister of State said about the possibility of resentment on the part of the communities in the host countries?

Fatah, Hamas and Israel all have prisoners belonging to each other to a greater or lesser extent. To what extent does the international community continue to monitor the extent to which prisoners are held in each other's territory, the conditions in which they are held and the extent to which humanitarian requirements are being met?

What was the outcome of that tunnel? What was it about? It is important that we keep an ongoing interest in it.