393. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on reports that the administration in the United States of America is freeing $3.5 billion of more than $9 billion in frozen Afghan government assets, which belong to the Afghan people, to be diverted to a fund for victims of 9/11 at a time that the United Nations says that one million Afghan children could die from starvation or cold this winter with 24 million Afghans facing acute hunger and 8.7 million Afghans facing famine; the steps he has taken to satisfy himself that none of that amount includes aid given by Ireland to support humanitarian agencies operating in Afghanistan; the representations he has made to his United States, European Union, United Nations and other international counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10498/22]

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393. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on reports that the administration in the United States of America is freeing $3.5 billion of more than $9 billion in frozen Afghan government assets, which belong to the Afghan people, to be diverted to a fund for victims of 9/11 at a time that the United Nations says that one million Afghan children could die from starvation or cold this winter with 24 million Afghans facing acute hunger and 8.7 million Afghans facing famine; the steps he has taken to satisfy himself that none of that amount includes aid given by Ireland to support humanitarian agencies operating in Afghanistan; the representations he has made to his United States, European Union, United Nations and other international counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10498/22]

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