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:

There is a mixture of direct and indirect funding to the Rohingya issue. We have pledged €2 million. We gave €1 million last year. We also fund the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, which is active in that crisis as well. We are one of the six largest donors to that particular crisis fund. The intention is to allocate €1.1 million this year.

We have a small development aid programme in Myanmar. We are accredited to Myanmar from Bangkok. We have a regional programme in south-east Asia as well. It is primarily centred in Vietnam but is now spreading to look at the most vulnerable in the region more broadly.

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