Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Sustainable Development Goals and Targets: Irish Aid
10:00 am
Ms Dympna Hayes:
As Mr. Gaffey said, on 1 October things will not change. Implementation and how to drive the agenda will be key. There is a follow-up and monitoring element to this whole process. Even though the commitments are voluntary, there will be a way of monitoring how countries are doing in implementing the commitments they have voluntarily taken on. Nobody is forcing anybody to do them. This is a process countries have engaged in voluntarily and they are taking on the commitments because they want to create better, just and equal societies.
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