Plan Ireland seeks your support for the Dochas “Act Now on 2015” campaign to highlight the need for Ireland to deliver on its aid promises to the world’s poor.
At the UN Millennium meeting in 2000, Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, made a commitment to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNP on Official Development Assistance by the end of 2007. This deadline was subsequently extended to 2012 and then to 2015.
In 2008 current Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the UN: “We do not need to make further pledges if we just deliver on what we have already promised.” Since then he has presided over cuts in the overseas aid budget to the tune of 21% and the likelihood is that there is more to come in the next budget.
These cuts are having catastrophic effects on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people - for example, Plan Ireland has had to cancel plans to build two schools in Mali which means that hundreds of children will not now receive an education.
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