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Speech at the Irish Launch of the European Year of Development
Dublin Castle, 22nd January 2015
Tá fíoráthas orm a bheith anseo libh ar fad chun Bliain Eorpach na Forbartha a sheoladh in Éirinn, agus ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le Dóchas as ucht a gcuiridh caoin labhairt libh tráthnóna. [I am sincerely very pleased to be here with you all as we launch the European Year of Development in Ireland, and I would like to thank Dóchas for their kind invitation to address you this afternoon.]
The decision by the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union to designate 2015 as…
Too often has the term ‘development’ been used interchangeably, in public discourse, with the terms ‘aid’ or ‘charity’. Development was presented as something that needed to happen in the so-called ‘developing’ world, outside of the sphere of industrialised nations, and remote from the daily existences of Western citizens.


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