Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach recently indicated that over the next four or five years Irish Aid will spend somewhere in the region of €130 million in Tanzania. Four Ministers in that country are currently under investigation for corruption. In view of the dramatic increase in world food prices, I ask the Tánaiste to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to consider reallocating our commitments to some of our programme countries to the world food programme.

See this speech in context