Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

There needs to be a very clear distinction between our rapid response corps, which provides specialist aid in humanitarian situations, and the security or violent dimension to an emergency. In Haiti, the security situation is of concern to us but it is not our responsibility. It would be the responsibility of global organisations, such as MINUSTAH.

There is discussion at European level as to how there can be a co-ordinated response on the security front by the European Union. The view, very much, is that because these disasters are of increasing frequency

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