Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion
Mr. Michael Gaffey:
There has been a pretty strong commitment in recent years to sustained, steady increases in the budget, and that has been delivered on. As I said earlier, in the UK legislation was brought in in order to tie ODA to the 0.7% target. It led to really interesting administrative procedures in trying to find the money and in trying to put it out there, but at least under legislation there was a commitment to that. The other side of that is that the legislation was changed and the commitment was dropped. What we have experienced is a commitment to steady increases.