Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

We are all birds of passage here. What will sustain this country's ongoing and long-term commitment to Africa and to the poorest of the poor is the generation of sufficient awareness of what we are doing domestically to inform subsequent public policy to ensure our commitment in that respect remains at the core as one of our primary objectives. I saw the annual report and I thought it was a good one compared to some other documents we get. Its pictures told a thousand stories.

One of the greatest things I have witnessed since I took up this position is the great awareness among young people of our commitment to Irish Aid. I visited a school last week where 15 young boys are going to Ghana to meet with those in a partner school there.

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