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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Sorry, Mr. Whyte, what is a consultation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Before I go to the first contributor, we thank Mr. Whyte on behalf of the committee for the work he has done. I will keep it as simple as that. There is no point going into profundities, but I do not think we have any conception of what UNRWA is up against. We hope to get a glimpse into what they are doing. I will ask a preliminary question. What kind of physical shape are UNRWA...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Our next speaker is Senator Higgins who is accompanied, I suspect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: No, you have your hands full.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins will have to wait.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins's time is up. We will have a second round shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: No, you cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins cannot ask now but she will have an opportunity to come back on it. I need to be fair to everyone. With the greatest respect to Senator Higgins, and I am fierce fond of her, I am afraid of setting precedent in the committee. We stick to our time limits. I will give Mr. Whyte time to answer the questions. I have some questions to ask in my own time. Will Mr. Whyte...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Am I correct in saying that UNRWA personnel are not allowed to rotate in or out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Is it all local staff now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Are they rotated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Does Mr. Whyte see any chink whereby the international community could capitalise on this in Israeli public opinion? Is there anything the West could do? Clearly, the Israeli Government is not for turning. There is no point in wasting energy there, but what about Israeli public opinion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Do you see any evidence of forward planning in respect of the most well-known or infamous articulation of that economic development of Gaza?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: If Israel gets its way, how will this end?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: What about the fabulously wealthy neighbours, namely the Arab states in the region?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Why is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: We will go to a second round. I call Deputy Brennan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Mr. Whyte, you mentioned recalibrating, resilience and being there for 70 years. I can only speak for myself, but I am sure it is mirrored by other people, that the sense of disillusionment, helplessness, hopelessness and doom I would feel when reading reactions or seeing a chink of light get shut off means my heart literally and physically sinks, and I am not within a micro-distance of the...