Labhrás Ó Murchú (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator Ryan's request for an urgent debate on the imminent humanitarian disaster in Kenya and surrounding countries. The international community will have to live up to its obligation because it will not be able to claim ignorance in this regard. This is a situation which was never experienced before. If urgent action is not taken we will again be watching decaying humanity on our television screens. We will see helpless, dying babies in the arms of their mothers. None of us who wants to take a stand and be credible in the world can ignore this situation. It is difficult to understand how we can spend billions waging war for what we say is freedom and human rights when the greatest freedom and human right of all has to be the right to life itself. The House has a role to play. If we are to retain any credibility in international status and relationships, we must ensure that what is now imminent in that region will not be allowed to happen.