Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham:

Ukraine is 51% funded so is among the better funded programmes that we have. We have targeted and are supporting 11 million of the 17 million people we have identified as needing assistance. This means 11 million of the highest priority people. We are relatively successfully in targeting and supporting those populations. We do not have access to the eastern part of the country, which is controlled by Russia, and the affected population there that we have not been able to support in the past year or so.

The Black Sea grain deal right now has been suspended.