Seanad debates
Wednesday, 27 November 2002
Overseas Development Aid: Motion.
I wish to discuss the cut in Vote 39 in the Estimates. Here again, there is a danger that we can get involved in a conjurer's illusion. There is an increase of €33 million in the Ireland Aid expenditure, which was €340 million in 2002. However, this merely replaces the €32 million that was cut from the 2002 budget earlier in the year. It is, in fact, a conjuring trick. We have to watch these sharp accountancy practices.
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