In a move that can only be seen as flaccid attempt at a rebuttal to US President Donald Trump, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has announced that Ireland will quadruple its contributions of taxpayer money to the World Health Organisation.
Coveney tweeted:
“#Ireland strongly supports @WHO in efforts to coordinate a global response to combat #COVID19.
‘So many countries rely on @UN expertise and capacity to save lives.
‘Ireland is quadrupling our normal annual financial contribution to @WHO for 2020 to €9.5 million.”
By far the largest contributor to the WHO is the United States who contributes around half a billion dollars of US taxpayer money to the UN organisation every year, but now President Trump has cut pulled the trough away from the agency until they investigate the handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.
The WHO has long been accused of being beholden to the communist dictatorship of China with the organisation being condemned by the Taiwanese government who had evidence of human to human transmission of the virus but this fell on deaf ears as the WHO towed the initial Chinese line.
The Japanese Minister for Health also hit out at the organisation calling on it to change its name to the “Chinese Health Organisation”.
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