I am particularly pleased that the report of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee published last week noted that in the past decade, Ireland's contribution to ODA has increased dramatically to 0.4% of its gross national income compared to a figure of some €70 million or .16% of gross national income in 1992. Ireland channels half of its ODA to the least developed countries. This is the largest share among the 22 member countries in the Development Assistance Committee and contributes to achieving the millennium development goals. It might be salutary to remind the House that those seven programme countries are Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho, and Timor Leste, formerly East Timor, with which Ireland has had a strong relationship both prior to and subsequent to independence.