Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary)
2:00 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We will not itemise them. The World Food Programme receives funds from other countries specifically to feed certain people in certain camps. The reason it is so appreciative of what Ireland is doing is that we give it flexibility to choose to spend where there are gaps. We will not prescribe the camps it which it should spend the money, but I have made it very clear that I would like to see the majority of it being spent on Syrian refugees and, obviously, then to plug holes in other areas where it might have problems.
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