Seanad debates

Wednesday, 27 November 2002

Overseas Development Aid: Motion.

 

It is most important that we do everything we can to support this Minister, as we supported his splendid predecessor, Deputy O'Donnell, who was invoked earlier in this debate. She was simply terrific. She put her neck on the block on this issue and more power to her. I have in my hand an invitation I have just received to the Doolin memorial lecture which she will give in the College of Surgeons next Saturday week. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend but the title of the lecture is instructive, given that she is the immediate predecessor of the current Minister. It is: "The fight against diseases of the poor: the moral imperative for development assistance". That puts the issue in perspective.

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