Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Chairman. In the context of programme C and values, the Minister mentioned contributions made to international organisations, predominantly the UN and issues surrounding refugees, healthcare and so forth, in the context of our membership of the UN Security Council, allied to our programme for government commitment, which, thankfully, seeks to support UN institutions, including the support of the democratisation and human rights, and also in the context of representations that have been made to me, what priority has the Department given to advance what appears to be the very recent UN report findings that genocide was committed in Iraq by ISIS against the Yazidi community? I also ask this in the context of a recent speech by the Irish UN ambassadors at the UN report launch. Can the Minister elaborates on this and perhaps he might engage with us and give us some indication of the priority in funding towards those institutions commitments to democratisation and human rights, please?