Professor Patrick Fitzpatrick:

I would like to return to Deputy Eric Byrne's question on the Africa strategy. We did not contribute to it. That strategy almost predates the formation of the centre. It was launched by the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, in 2010. That strategy is about developing a wider spectrum of relationships with developing countries, from aid to trade. For example, in Zambia, Irish Aid has been doing similar work for the past 25 years even though, in the meantime, Zambia has become a middle-income country. The seeking of different relationships with middle-income countries is something that the Africa strategy espouses, and we are very conscious of that.

I return to the point we made that we consciously did not use the phrase "centre for international development" even though that was our working title for the first couple of years before we were formally launched. We changed the phrase to "global development", which indicates that we are also concerned with the development of sustainable societies and sustainable livelihoods.