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A TEAM OF experts from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Defence Forces will fly out to the Philippines this week to assess how the Irish typhoon aid effort should proceed.
It’s planned they’ll travel on Wednesday and take part in meetings in Manila with the Filipino Government, UN agencies and NGOs, before visiting Irish-funded relief programmes in the areas worst affected by the storm.
Ireland has donated €2.6 in funding to the international relief effort to date, while three airlifts of shelter, water, sanitation and other emergency supplies worth around €845,000 have also taken place.
“We have charged the team with assessing how Ireland can be most effective in responding to the longer-term needs of communities in the Philippines,” Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore said.
The team will report back with recommendations on how to proceed once the mission is complete.
Typhoon Haiyan left almost 7,000 people dead or missing when it swept through the central Philippine islands earlier this month.
The government says about 4.3 million people lost their homes in the typhoon, double the number of those made homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
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Had not realised they had not yet provided a replacement mobility allowance for those who require it. Typical government not important as there are no votes in it…..
When it comes to the golden circle the wheels of government can spin very fast…when its the most vulnerable they barely turn at all.
Wonder will they change when they get a spanking on may 23..
Yet Water tax legislation sailed through in record time………………makes you wonder about priorities doesnt it?
It is a pity they would not cut their own mobility allowance as in travel claims just to attend the Dail, their place of work!
Government policy. The weak, the needy and feeble are shoved aside, and put at the back of the Q. Don’t forget the feeble minded weaklings who pretend to govern us subscribe to the Darwinian ethic of, ‘Only the strong survive’. In their world that means only the greedy and their corrupt underlings survive. We can be strong in ways that they will never know about. God Bless you all. Get up now and walk the walk and talk the talk.
Govts do not do planning or forward thinking. That would entail utilising brain cells. Totally alien concept to the powers that be!!!
Disgraceful Gov. has not catered for people with disabilities. Should it really matter if a person was diagnosed with a disability in the last few months as opposited to 13 months ago.
Gov Policy = Ageism and discrimination at its best.
unless they get told by the mafia bosses in brussels or the troika/IMF or the banks these lot in power couldn’t run a decent piss up on st paddys day
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