Seanad debates
Wednesday, 27 November 2002
Overseas Development Aid: Motion.
If we were trading fairly we would keep all our aid and the developing world would still be better off. I am not just talking about Ireland but Europe also. I am taking Ireland as an example of one of the proponents because we appear to be afraid even to question the Common Agricultural Policy. That is an amazing way for a country like Ireland to behave when one takes account our values and traditions. As long as we persist in behaving in this way, we cannot hope, as Europeans, to gain the influence that we seek in the rest of the world.
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