Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

We are working with the poorest of the poor, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. We are working at the coalface and have a good audit committee and good governance. We are working to get aid to the poorest of the poor and achieve the 0.7% of gross national income target by 2012. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has written to the Chief Whip to give parliamentarians, through the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, a clearer view of the strategic workings of how we will expand the aid budget by 2012.

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