Details of Ireland Aid spending over the years, including specific locations and amounts of grants allocated, are outlined in the Ireland Aid annual reports, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. These reports, the latest of which is for 2000, also give a comprehensive outline of the overall sectoral and geographic focus of the aid programme. It should be noted that, under UN and OECD guidelines, grants for projects in a number of eastern European countries, including Romania, are classified as "official aid" rather than "official development assistance"; aid given by Ireland to Romania is not taken into account when calculating the total amount of ODA disbursed.
For convenience, I am forwarding separately to the Deputy the last three published reports. The Annual Report for 2001 will be published later this year. Provisional outturns for 2001 indicate that €184,112 was allocated in direct bilateral aid for projects in Romania. The breakdown of this allocation was as follows. Under the stability pact process, Ireland Aid has funded the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, counter human-trafficking programme in Romania since its inception in 2000. The programme builds on assistance provided by the international community to victims of human trafficking by providing an inter-agency referral system offering reintegration options. The programme is focused primarily on the trafficking of women and girls, many of whom are in their early teens. Ireland Aid support for this programme in 2001 amounted to €158,717.