Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation

12:20 pm

Mr. David Cooney:

We have. We have signed an agreement with the IMF to cover not only Mozambique, but all our priority countries. I have to say, frankly, we were a bit dumbstruck to hear this because we were not aware of these reports. Maybe, if we had from IMF headquarters they existed. We did not know about them. It was a little embarrassing for us.