Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

Question 1: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a Human Rights Watch report entitled Development Without Freedom How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia, which urges foreign donors to examine the ways in which the Ethiopian Government uses donor supported resources and aid as a tool to consolidate the power of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43399/10]

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