Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan: Discussion

3:15 pm

Ms Siobhan Walsh:

It is close. I am not saying it has. I am saying it is severely stressed. It already was. That is why we were doing the work analysing the health system in Lebanon, and why we are saying we need to provide funding to support that before there is further destruction of that health system. It is under severe tension and stress. Access to communities is also absolutely vital. We have launched an appeal to look for support to communities that are displaced, for food supplies and non-food items and parcels that are critically needed in these early days of families being displaced. It is an alarming situation unfolding and people are desperate.