Delivery of the official development assistance programme

What this means

• The Department of Foreign Affairs runs Ireland's official development assistance programme, known as Irish Aid, which funds international development and humanitarian work.[source]
• Irish Aid is the part of the Department responsible for directing government money to support poorer countries and people affected by crises around the world.[source]
• This mandate covers both long-term development cooperation and emergency humanitarian responses, meaning the Department acts in both planned and crisis situations.[source]
• Because public funds are used, this mandate is directly relevant to accountability. Citizens can scrutinise how and where Ireland's aid budget is spent through Irish Aid reporting.[source]

Direct impact (2)

• duty held by body
  Department of Foreign AffairsBody
• implements mandate via commitment
  Make progress towards 0.7% of GNI on overseas aidCommitment

Indirect impact (5)

Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.

• duty held by body → owns statutory mandate2-hop via dept-foreign
  Conduct of foreign relations and diplomatic representationMandate
• duty held by body → owns statutory mandate2-hop via dept-foreign
  Issue of Irish passportsMandate
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade2-hop via dept-foreign
  Helen McEnteeOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade2-hop via dept-foreign
  Neale RichmondOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and at the Department of Defence2-hop via dept-foreign
  Thomas ByrneOfficeholder