Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Chapter 13 - Official Development Assistance

11:10 am

Mr. David Cooney:

I will respond and with agreement I might ask my colleagues Mr. Rogers and Mr. Carlos to speak. When we came here in December 2012, we had all been very shaken by what had happened in Uganda. We put our hand up at the time and said we had already identified areas where things could have been done better by ourselves. We followed up very robustly. When we came here the last time, the interim report of the evaluation audit unit had already been published. Following that, the first thing to say is that we got the money back, very significantly due to the efforts of Mr. Brendan Rogers and our ambassador.