There have been new pledges of financial help for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

In Brussels, EU ministers have offered at least €400 million in long term aid.

€30 million of humanitarian assistance is to come from the European Commission, while a further €92 million will be given as humanitarian assistance from EU member states.

€100 million of non-humanitarian assistance is also to be given to Haiti. This will mainly go towards restoring government capabilities.

The Commission have also committed €200 million of long term reconstruction aid, subsequent to an assessment of needs.

Total aid so far is €222 million for immediate assistance, plus €200 million in the future.

Although there have been problems in getting food, water and medicine to people in Port-au-Prince it’s understood supplies are starting to get through.

However, Irish aid agency GOAL is calling for a co-ordinated international relief effort in Haiti.

John O’Shea told Lunchtime with Eamon Keane, one person needs to take responsibility.

“If that one man is put in charge and if the international community and the aid community know that there is somebody calling the shots, then there’s a chance that access will be dramatically improved and that the looting will be controlled and that law and order will be restored to the capital” he said.

“The two issues that are central to everything here are access and security” he added.

Newstalk’s Ger Gilroy is in Haiti, and earlier describeed the atmosphere on the street.

“We happened upon Ban Ki-Moon and you just get the impression really the UN hasn’t got to grips with the situation” he said.

“He was issuing platitudes to people; his minders bustled him away from a group of men who were actually asking him questions about ‘Well when is the aid going to arrive? We need food, we need the bodies to be cleaned up – this is what we need”.

“It wasn’t one of those ideal photo opportunities” he added.

He continued “The bulldozers come at night and clear those bodies and they go to the mass graves that you’ve been hearing so much about as well”.

“There aren’t as many bodies now as there were and the bodies that are now being brought tend to be wrapped in clothes”.

“It’s a terrible, horrible scene that you see all around this city”.

“There are still some bodies out in the sun, and it’s just the type of thing you’ll never forget” he added.

Bill Clinton is due in Haiti today to meet with President Rene Preval to discuss the situation on the ground, almost one week on from the devastating earthquake.

The former US President is UN Special Envoy to the country and will also bring more aid supplies.

The UN Security Council will be asked today to make more troops and police available to work on the ground in keeping order as desperation grows among earthquake survivors.

Frustration is building over the pace with which aid has been arriving to help those left injured and homeless.