Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the Foreign Minister and his colleagues and hope their visit to Ireland will be mutually beneficial. To what extent are Mozambique's indigenous industries growing? For example, are home-grown industries developing in parallel with foreign direct investments?

With regard to aid, can Mozambique be sure Irish aid directed to it and adjoining countries goes to the people who most deserve it and for whom it is intended? Have issues or disparities been identified in this regard? In other words, is there cost effectiveness and do we get the benefit for the people for whom it is intended?

In recognising that Mozambique had its own civil war, to what degree has the peace process bedded down and continued? For example, is there a danger that it can revert back to form and what are the possible reasons for this? Is it possible to put measures in place to avert a return to war?

My last point concerns the degree to which reconciliation has taken place between the opposing factions in the civil war. To what extent has this benefited Mozambique? Recognising the degree to which it has emerged internationally and is seen internationally as a place in which the investor can have confidence, to what extent has poverty been targeted specifically by the government and international agencies in co-operation with it?