Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Role and Functions: Trócaire

3:50 pm

Mr. Éamonn Meehan:

The 4% figure refers to a single Christmas campaign. Our financial year ends at the end of February and by the end of this financial year, our income will be greater than it was in the previous 12 months. This is due to a collection we had for a humanitarian response in mid-November. When one responds to a humanitarian crisis it generates additional resources. However, we also tried to establish what is our unrestricted income as this is, in a sense, the true measure of what is available to the organisation to spend as it sees fit and in the places it has prioritised. The emergency income is additional to this income and is allocated only to the country for which it has been raised.

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