Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will briefly come in to support Senator Higgins' amendments. The reason I do so is because it is increasingly clear to me that in fact, there will be an agenda of privatisation and of outsourcing coming from the European Union. It is very clear, unfortunately. God knows the Ukrainian people have suffered enough already. It is par for the form of the European Union to attach these types of conditionalities to the sort of funding we are talking about. Unless the Minister of State is in a position to guarantee that those sort of conditionalities are not going to be attached, I cannot think of a single reason he would not support this amendment. It is very sensible, and in fairness, it is an amendment that we can put in as a defence of the Ukrainian people for the coming time.