Mr. Shane Leahy:

Through Project Conor in Odessa we are working with a local charity to deliver services to families that have severely mentally and physically disabled children. They are forgotten in a time of war. The Ukrainian government has other priorities, unfortunately, in terms of the front-line action and front-line casualties. It is often the weak who are left behind and we are starting a project of supporting them. It is headed by the commercial director of Cemark, who is volunteering all of his time on the ground. We are providing funding directly to him so that he can purchase medicines. Those medicines are overseen by the Odessa university hospital. That relationship was brought about Professor Fitzpatrick and Professor Bury. I am very proud of the work we are doing there and the difference it is making on the ground. It is something I would like to see more co-operation with going forward.

To comment on that briefly, we have come across a number of different organisations and, again, even the work that we are doing together came about by a fluke. We have been able to complement each other. We have been able to bring equipment into Kyiv when they have had problems. They have been able to assist us with the project in Odessa by bringing in Odessa university hospital and it has been invaluable to us being able to deliver a service over there. If there was some type of emergency co-ordinator who could bring all of the groups together, hear what they are doing and potentially allocate some resources to some of those, that would be very useful.