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
12:30 pm
Mr. David Cooney:
I am quite happy to put it in the headlines because people need to know what it is like to look after an embassy abroad. One has only to put the words "diplomat" and "pampered" together and one has a headline but that is not what it is like. I am sure I will be toasted by the spouses in the Department who have been working for nothing over the years.