Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 November 2003

Overseas Development Aid: Motion.

 

I take a different view from the Government on certain issues, such as Uganda. I heard President Museveni make a surprisingly good case when he was interviewed on the radio recently but he was interviewed in a mealy-mouthed fashion and let away with murder. He sowed some doubts in my mind about my feeling that there should be clear restrictions on Government aid to Uganda, but then in the last few days his wife and daughter flew to Paris to allow his daughter to give birth there and he openly said that the health services were not good enough for his family. That is a disgrace and he should be ashamed to say such a thing and to spend $250,000 on a private aeroplane to take his wife and daughter to Paris.

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