David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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What is happening there is barbaric. It is terrible. Thousands of children have been abducted and people have been killed and injured in a war with no real aim except greed, power-grabbing and land-grabbing.

It makes no sense at all and the cost to everyone on all sides is horrendous. What can be done with the funding can be for good and yet it is being ploughed into war with no sign of real peace. It is just horrendous. I have met many people from Ukraine who have come here and I have listened to their stories. They had to flee with what they had and their homes are gone. The same thing is happening in Gaza and in Sudan. It is shocking. The world is in an awful mess.