Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on diverting funds from bilateral aid programme to an emergency programme that would resuscitate discussed boreholes in the Horn of Africa, thus providing immediate clean water to ten million people facing starvation in the drought ridden region; if he will recruit unemployed Irish engineers to volunteer their services to this emergency appeal; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cost of drilling and maintaining a functioning bore hole capable of serving a village of several hundred people is as low as $6,500. [20376/11]

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