Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for the seven questions there. I will be as brief as I can. The sector acknowledged the difficulty in areas where there have been humanitarian crises. In some areas, it has set back the development work undertaken over previous years and we have to work to rebuild that, especially in relation to the earthquake in Turkey and Cyprus. Ireland was the first out to offer €10 million of aid immediately on the weekend that happened. We all recall the death of 30 GOAL workers in Syria who were from Syria and were good friends with our GOAL workers here in Ireland. I also acknowledge the funding of €515,000 that we have made available to Dóchas this year to support this core work. Dóchas is also carrying out a deep Irish public attitudes survey towards overseas aid and I look forward to seeing the results of this research in due course.

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