Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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No. The only thing we did in the last budget was that we increased our aid budget by about €10 million in terms of what we contribute. As I said earlier, but it is worth repeating and I am not doing this to be repetitive, it is quite early to assess the impact of the cuts by USAID. Other donor countries, like the UK, have flagged that they are making the cuts but they have not made them yet. That is actually a better way to go about this, though, because we know what is coming and how our aid agencies, in particular, can react.