Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 November 2003

Overseas Development Aid: Motion.

 

I should mention, since Senator Daly has expertise in the context of South America, that the top ten recipients of gross ODA from Ireland include, in tenth place, the Palestinian administrative areas. I make a plea to the Minister that if ever there was a case for improving aid to a people who have been oppressed, suppressed and living in the most abject poverty in the refugee camps in the West Bank it is these because I have been there. As Senator Daly said, no amount of videos can convey the misery under which people live. In the context of overseas development aid I ask the Minister of State to consider increasing aid to the Palestinian administrative areas.

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