Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised)
2:00 am
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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I take the opportunity to raise an issue that probably does not get enough attention here. We are rightly very exercised by the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is something I speak about very frequently, but there is not a great deal of discussion in these Houses on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
There was an attack on a hospital today, or perhaps it was last night, leading to the deaths of 40 people. Some 13 million people are displaced. There is immense human suffering as well as starvation and everything that goes with it. It is a vicious ethnic conflict. Could the Tánaiste comment on what Ireland has been doing to raise its voice on the appalling conflict in Sudan?