Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

We have responded to other natural disasters such as Hurricane Noel in Mexico, the cyclone in Bangladesh, the Caribbean and central America, severe flooding in Uganda and Mozambique and the earthquake in Peru. The Irish Red Cross and other NGOs in Indonesia had sufficient capacity to respond to the flooding and landslides. No international appeal for assistance issued and, therefore, we knew of no major unfilled gaps during the emergency response phase that required a large scale mobilisation of international resources. I will come back to the Deputy on the review to which he referred, as I must obtain more detail on it.

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