An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business Seanad Éireann — 2026-02-24 ============================================================ Gerard P. Craughwell (IND), Labour Panel I too recognise the Estonian ambassador visiting here on Estonia day. She has been extremely supportive to me over her term in Ireland, facilitating a number of delegations to Estonia in order that we could put together a vision paper for cybersecurity, which we will launch in the next couple of weeks. It has been four years since the incursion into mainland Ukraine started and 12 years and four days since the incursion into Crimea. We have to remember the Crimea incident was the start. Europe turned a blind eye to it and we are where we are today. There can be no peaceful solution in Ukraine without Ukraine and the Europeans. That is something we have to get across. I want to turn to the loan of €90 billion. I hate to say this because some Sinn Féin people are very good friends of mine but Sinn Féin blocking that in a vote in the European Parliament is totally unacceptable. We cannot put murder and genocide in a hierarchy, with Gaza up here and Ukraine down there. Murder and genocide are the same, irrespective of where it happens. Ukraine deserves the money it needs to survive. The fact that Hungary has thrown its hat into the ring leaves Ukraine in a dire situation. I ask those who have been against providing moneys to Ukraine to survive to reappraise their position and perhaps show a more humanitarian approach to what those people are suffering. Suffering in war is something nobody should have to put up with. On the rebuilding of Ukraine, we have had two distinguished professors in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery today. They talk about Kyiv now being a war city, with no lights other than from generators and no heat. Let us show a little humanitarian goodwill. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2026-02-24/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:41+00:00 Sitting date: 2026-02-24