Mr. Ruair? de B?rca:

Absolutely, we will send it on.

The largest suite of NGOs we fund are Irish NGOs - Trócaire, Concern, GOAL and others. With those we have a very particular form of relationship. We have a five-year funding relationship which gives them predictable funding based on agreed delivery targets. We track those targets. We work with them and we meet various times over the course of each year. We check all annual reporting, including their accounts. We go and visit and check. We track all of that. All the funding we provide is checked by the OECD against a series of internationally agreed criteria for development aid. If it does not meet those criteria, it does not count as development aid. Periodically - the last time this was done was in 2020 - the OECD comes and does a review of Irish Aid. The last time it did that in 2020 it said that we were an exemplary donor and that in terms of humanitarian assistance, we were an example that other donors could follow. It had particular praise for how we engage with civil society and for the unrestricted funding that Irish Aid gives to multilateral organisations.