Ireland must be proactive on the international stage in terms of the provision of humanitarian relief. I know we are already proactive, but we have to be even more so now. Our role in the United Nations represents a proud tradition of service and I urge the Minister of State to continue his good efforts in that regard. We also have to try to get diplomacy working again, but we should not lose sight of the multinational force that went into Beirut in the early 1980s. That force failed and eventually had to be replaced by the UN. There is, therefore, a precedent for a multinational force being replaced by a UN operation.