Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Deputy for his comments but there are a number of inaccuracies in the questions he posed. At a recent meeting in Brussels of the 25 EU Ministers with responsibility for overseas development, I was proud and delighted that the EU committed itself, en bloc, to a target date of achieving the millennium development goal figure of 0.7% of GNP, or GNI as it is now called——

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