<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishMaafisa wa serikali ya Ireland, ambao hivi karibuni walikuwa nchini Marekani kwa ajili ya mkutano wa kujadili njaa, wamekataa maelezo ya Pataki kuhusu njaa hiyo na kuipinga sheria ya New York.  <response>: And an Irish government official, recently in the United States for a symposium on the famine, has refuted Patakis description of the famine and distanced the Irish government from the New York law. 