Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Just hear me out for a second now. That was in the middle of the bush and that gave water on tap to 3,000 villagers. It was not on tap in their individual huts but in the square that serviced 3,000 people. A consequence of that was the girls did not have to lose time in school because it is the girls who traditionally go and collect the water. Now they can go to school as the water is on the doorstep, so to speak. This is an Irish foreign aid direct provision and idea as well, so there is a lot of innovation going on in our-----
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