Ms Caoimhe de Barra:

I can only underscore a couple of the points made by my colleagues, one of which is around the funding. I will add to Ms McKenna's point about the volume of funding, and I will speak to the nature of funding. Funding is very valuable where it is co-ordinated, flexible and prioritises local actors. Again, I underscore that this is a long-term crisis. We need to make sure funding supports local actors in Ukraine and in the neighbouring environments. We need to make sure it supports co-ordinated mechanisms such as the Irish Emergency Alliance and other co-ordinated mechanisms. We need to make sure it is flexible. As to the point my colleague has just made, this is a rapidly changing environment. If funding is tied up in rules that mean we cannot move it towards where it is needed most when it is needed most, then it becomes a burden. Funding needs to be flexible, co-ordinated and local.

My final point is we need to treat this as a gendered crisis. No crisis is not gendered. Women and children are at the forefront and disproportionately suffering from this crisis. We need to start speaking of it as a gendered crisis.