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Senator DASTYARI: So $42 million of the $44 million has been spent. We are just working through some contractual arrangements. The other $2 million will be dispersed very shortly, by the end of the month probably. Mr Innes-Brown : Of the $44 million, $42 million has been paid to partners. I can ask Mr Isbister or Mr Innes-Brown whether they know if it is actually. Senator DASTYARI: So has the $44 million been spent? Has it been handed over to partners? It is for security reasons, no other reason. Mr McDonald : We can tell you but, because of the role they play in countries and for the security particularly of the people involved, we do not actually divulge publicly. Is that a common thing that we do, give aid money to partners that we do not divulge? Senator DASTYARI: I am perhaps new to this so I am not familiar with this. And then we also provided $10 million for Iraq, of which $5 million went to World Food Program and another $5 million went to a partner that we prefer not to divulge for security reasons. Senator DASTYARI: But it is aid funding, right? UNHCR received $20 million for the region WFP, $4 million for the region UNICEF, $3 million also for the region IMC, International Medical Corps, $2 million for Syria and there was another payment of $5 million for Syria that we are not divulging for security reasons where that funding has gone.
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Mr McDonald : We will be able to give you the date. Senator DASTYARI: What date did that happen? Senator DASTYARI: 'Went' as in they have received it? Mr McDonald : Of the $44 million that was announced earlier this financial year, $34 million went to Syria and the region of which UNHCR received $20 million. Mr McDonald would be in a position to take you through how that additional humanitarian assistance is intended to be expended. Mr Varghese : The headline figure was that we were contributing an additional $44 million, as I recall, on top of the decision by the government to resettle 12,000 refugees from that area. Mr Secretary, if I could begin with the announcement that was made on 9 September by the then government about the union and humanitarian assistance, would you start by running through what the cost of that is and what the quantum of that announcement was? Senator DASTYARI: I want to start by talking about Syria and Australia's response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Minister, do you wish to make an opening statement?ĬHAIR: Secretary, would you to make an opening statement?