Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Tánaiste's final comments in regard to that appointment and consider it a worthwhile development. One other suggestion I made to his officials yesterday was that we need the utmost co-operation with the other donor countries working in those partnership countries, by and large, other EU member states. This is to give out a message that misappropriation of even 1 cent will not be tolerated by any of the donor countries. Working together with other donor countries can also impact on the message that misappropriation of taxpayers' money, from whatever member state, will not be tolerated and that the aid designated for people living in desperate circumstances in Uganda or other developing countries must reach those people.

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