Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Dominic Crowley:

I may not be 100% right on these figures but I would be very close. For the past three years, the US has given between 43% and 47% of humanitarian aid. If we look at total ODA, though, I think the US comes in at about 32%. We always talk about 0.7% of GNI, but that amount is just 0.23% of the United States's GNI. The scale of its national budgets means it has a disproportionate level of input into global ODA and the 83% cut we keep hearing about is devastating and cannot be filled.

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