Seanad debates
Wednesday, 11 June 2003
Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: Statements (Resumed).
I am amazed that while the media coverage is not very good, I saw an article at the weekend in regard to Iraq in which a reporter referred to the quiet roads, the good grub and the welcome to Iraq. In the Irish Independent, journalist, Mr. Mark Steyn, went on to attack the NGO network. He referred to it as the new imperial class: "They shuttle across the globe, mingling with their own kind . bringing with them the values of the mother country, or the mother bureaucracy". That type of reporting in which a person just uses the situation to attack NGOs is wrong. I have great personal regard for NGOs.
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