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

Ms Noreen Gumbo:

Irish Aid's 2016 report itemised that and it is 4%. However, one cannot dig down into the multilateral support. Some of that will go on education but that is not clear from the statistics. Some 4% of what it could track went to education. However, there is likely to be more spent on education.

I might make one other point around policy coherence. I know that this is a review looking specifically at Irish Aid but I think policy coherence is Irish Aid across into other areas of government. The two that stand out for us would be climate change and our policy on refugees. This review should not be completed without that policy coherence across areas.

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