Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised)
9:00 am
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I will forgo my contribution, Chairman, in order not to go over the same ground again. I generally share the remarks made already, but there is also a very urgent need for the United Nations to review its role and its influence globally. There is a gradual sidelining, for whatever reason, of the UN in the area of international conflicts, with obvious consequences.
It is not to the benefit of peace globally or to the future of the UN itself.