Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I will, of course. I think the conflict in Sudan, as the Tánaiste said, is one of the most awful conflicts in the world today. There is very little mention of it anywhere. Finally, on the number of people who drowned in the Mediterranean sea last year, the Tánaiste told me in the Dáil it was estimated the known number was over 3,000, which is about four or five jumbo jets of people who drowned; men, women and children. Would the Tánaiste comment on both of those questions please in the context of what we are doing from a foreign affairs point of view?