Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 184: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of financial aid given to Third World countries in 2006 and the projected figures for 2007. [31015/05]

Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Taoiseach announced at the UN Millennium Review Summit in New York on 14 September that the Government would reach the target of spending 0.7% of GNP on official development assistance by 2012. Interim targets of 0.47% of GNP in 2006 and 0.5% in 2007 have also been agreed. The 2006 Estimates process is under way and the allocations to the Vote of the Department of Foreign Affairs for international co-operation, Vote 29, will be agreed in the context of the Estimates negotiations. On the basis of anticipated growth rates, however, total ODA is expected to be of the order of €675 million in 2006 and €793 million in 2007.