Mr. Ruair? de B?rca:

The Government is committed to increasing the amount of money for ODA as a whole in the programme for Government. That is obviously a matter on which the Government will decide on budget day in the autumn.

The total allocation for ODA in 2014 was nearly €629 million. Last year on budget day it was more than €1 billion. There has been an approximately 66% increase in the overall cash allocation to ODA over the last eight years but because of dynamic economic growth, that has not delivered the steps up in percentage GNI towards that target one would anticipate. What I manage every year is cash and we have over the past six or seven years invested in our systems and people to make sure we can manage that increase in cash. We do not manage all of that €1 billion; we are just at over €600 million of it this year. However, we have a quality control function for the whole ODA across Government and we progress those systems.