Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation

11:50 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On that point and the issue on which Deputy Simon Harris has touched regarding how we can learn from this experience to make sure this does not happen in other countries, there has been an examination of recommendations on how our systems work. As Mr. Cooney said, we will only deal with this matter successfully if the systems of those who receive money are strengthened. We can strengthen our system as much as we want, but, ultimately, we depend on those who receive the money to do what they say they will do with it. Are there many lessons to be learned from what happened in the Ugandan system which we need to watch out for in the systems of the countries that receive money from us in terms of how they need to be strengthened, as opposed to what is happening on our side of the table?

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