Mr. David Cooney:

At the moment we have as far as possible established there are no Irish citizens in Ukraine, other than, obviously, reporters from the media who go there. However, we have not been able to identify any Irish citizen resident in Ukraine. It does not mean to say they might not be there, but we are not aware of anybody. Nobody has been notified to us. Nobody has notified themselves to us. We have an ambassador to Ukraine. It is a non-resident ambassador, based in Prague. They have been going to Kiev on a regular basis over the last few weeks.

We have an online system where we ask citizens to register to us in all countries so that we have as good an idea as possible of how many citizens we have in each country. At the moment we have no special arrangement in place. We co-operate very closely with our EU partners and there is no move under way to arrange for the evacuation of citizens at the moment.