Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

Within Irish Aid's policy, there is space to support local organisations. Indeed, in many of its partnership agreements with the international NGOs, there is a clear element there in how, in turn, NGO partners can support local organisations. That is definitely happening from the humanitarian budget but we really want to see that reflected in all of the ODAs so that within the multilateral agreements, particularly the partnerships with the UN, that where there is a way to go yet, it might engage perhaps with local communities and support and enable them to deliver that assistance. We would like to see Ireland use both its influence and its resourcing to say it would like there to be further funding directed directly to local community organisations.