Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you very much. I am sure your view is reflective of other NGOs as well. The committee will visit Uganda later in the year. This is more a Government policy than an NGO policy, and we will be dealing with it ourselves when we visit Uganda to have discussions with various NGOs and Government officials.

I thank the witnesses sincerely for their contribution. We have been given food for thought. Their ideas are very interesting but obviously will need further discussion. I will be there with the committee to meet the witnesses on where we should move forward post-2015. The year 2015 is the target for everybody at present. The meeting in New York in September 2013 will be important. Obviously the goal will be to try to ensure that countries of substance and means will achieve their millennium goals by 2015. That is very important. The Irish Aid document, One World, One Future: Ireland's Policy for International Development, is a very important document as we go forward. I hope we will get a more detailed analysis of that document from the witnesses in the future. The Minister of State, Deputy Joe Costello, will appear before us in the next two weeks to discuss that document and other issues.

I thank the witnesses sincerely for coming before us. A great deal of work will arise from the contribution of the witnesses. The members are up for it but we probably need more resources. It gives the committee more work, but we know that the NGOs value our work. That is important as well because we value the work of the NGOs.