Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total expenditure on overseas development aid in 2014; the percentage of GNP that this expenditure amounts to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2787/15]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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For 2014 the Government allocated almost €600 million to Official Development Assistance (ODA). €479 million was allocated to Vote 27 – International Cooperation, managed by the Development Cooperation Division of my Department - better known to the public as ‘Irish Aid’. A further estimated €120 million comprised ODA eligible contributions made by other Government Departments to International Organisations - mainly the Departments of Finance and Agriculture - and Ireland’s share of the EU Development Cooperation Budget.

Detailed expenditure data for 2014 is currently being collated and verified for ODA eligibility. However, based on preliminary expenditure data and the current estimates for Gross National Product (GNP), indications are for the 2014 ODA/GNP percentage outturn to be in the region of 0.4%. When finalised, the percentage outturn together with detailed analysis of expenditure data will be published in the statistical annexes to the Irish Aid Annual Report, which will be available at .