Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Éamonn Meehan:
They do have capacity but in many cases there are issues, for instance, bloated administrations, inefficiencies and a failure to effectively respond. As we have said this morning, we value the multilateral institutions. They do work in difficult places. There are issues about them and around them, and there have been many attempts to reform the UN system over the years, most of which have ended in failure. We believe it is a responsibility on Irish Aid to ensure the funding goes to those places where it can be most effectively used and used most quickly to respond to those who are vulnerable. It is about the balance.
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