Mr. Niall Burgess:

-----the first is that there is not a spectrum which goes from a partner country to ad hocarrangements. We have detailed sustained activities in other countries which are not ad hocand we are increasingly trying to take a regional view of our programming. We have a country programme in Ethiopia, for example, and we have a programme in Uganda. Uganda is receiving a lot of refugees from South Sudan. Ethiopia is in a fragile region. We are increasingly trying to take a look at how our programming has a wider regional impact, and it does do so. It is misleading and artificial to draw a line between development programmes and humanitarian assistance and the profound insecurity that one finds in these regions as well. The Irish Defence Forces, for example, have assisted with training in Somalia, which is one of the most insecure parts of the world. We have assisted as well in Chad, in Mali and in the Congo and the attempts to provide human security for citizens in these profoundly unstable areas has to be seen also as contributing to the conditions which allow for sustainable development in those countries too.