John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)

Last year Irish Aid published a value for money review entitled, Support to Tsunami Affected Countries. It recommended that Irish Aid allocates more funds to monitor technical support in future large scale emergencies, greater standardisation of reports and contracts, more use of evaluations and increased engagement with joint funding mechanisms where appropriate and, in supporting future emergencies, a smaller number of partner agencies with specific expertise should be selected to ensure Irish Aid support does not become fragmented. Since then, the organisation has provided funding in Mexico following severe flooding and Indonesia. Were the recommendations in this review adopted in the provision of funding to Mexico and Indonesia? Will the Minister of State outline the meetings he has had with his officials about the recommendations? What has been done to implement them, given he has had two opportunities since the review to act on them?

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