Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

As GNI has changed over the years, has the percentage always increased?

In the event of a downturn in our economy and GNI going down, and if the funding holds up at 0.39%, in real terms it will become a bigger percentage of GNI. Because it is real money that matters to the work Irish Aid does, what we would not want to see in a recession scenario is that the percentage could go up but that in real terms Irish Aid's money could go down. Has that ever happened? We have to ensure that it does not happen in the event of the economic situation changing.