Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the urgent need to reaffirm Ireland's commitment to the poorest of the poor in the world in development aid, the need to define the Irish development aid project in human rights terms and further to provide adequate funding for the Irish Human Rights Commission to enable it to continue its work on human rights and to enable it to make progress on the requirements of the Good Friday Agreement in human rights on an all-island basis.

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