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:
On the multilateral side, it is done differently. Obviously, you give money to the UN agencies. We would be relying primarily on their own audit of their expenditure. Once we give them money, it is a bit like the money we give in budget support or programme support. It goes into a pool, it is not dyed green. We cannot trace it. We are relying on them then.