Seanad debates

Wednesday, 27 November 2002

Overseas Development Aid: Motion.

 

At EU level we should strive to ensure the proportion of EU aid spent on the least developed countries reaches a minimum of 0.15% to 0.20% of GNP by the date of the EU-Africa summit in April 2003. As I said, we should not support the withholding or granting of development aid on the basis of developing countries' acceptance of returning asylum seekers or migrants. The Government should work to develop concrete mechanisms at EU level to monitor coherence between development co-operation and other policies. We need to get our policy priorities right. It is too bad that we grant generous tax concessions to the livestock industry while at the same time we cut overseas aid to people who will die as a result.

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