Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Burgess:

We can see the impact of some actions on the ground. We were talking earlier, for example, about the situation in Palestine; in the West Bank and in Gaza. The US withdrawal of funding for UNRWA is having a significant impact on the ground. In respect of the US withdrawal from the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, an organisation we work with closely which deals with issues of gender and equality that we care about deeply, we can see the impact of that on the ground as well. There is a shift in the development and humanitarian landscape and that is one example.

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