Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

Over the years, in difficult and in good times, the Irish people have demonstrated their generosity and their commitment to the world's most vulnerable people. They have contributed as individuals and as communities with their time and their financial resources. The Government has matched this commitment and, with the budget for 2009, has underlined our clear view that the poorest and most vulnerable people of the developing world must not become the chief victims of the international economic downturn.

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