Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised)
Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
That is very important. There should be an opportunity for committee members to visit Africa and see some of the work that is taking place on the ground. Due to Covid, I spent the first year and three quarters in office without that opportunity. There is nothing as transformative and that is why I think it would be wonderful for this committee to have a chance to see on the ground the real benefit. One can understand in a conversation with somebody in a small village in Uganda in literally 30 seconds more of how much of what we do is important than through all the facts and figures and all the paperwork we could go through. It would be a very worthwhile experience.
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