Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

Therefore the issue does not affect us. Those other countries can write off the cost and set it against their official development assistance but it is a one-off phenomenon. We would like to see other donors join us in reaching the 0.7% target. Certain countries have committed to achieving it by 2015. We will have difficulties. I refer mainly to Germany, Italy and perhaps Greece.

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