Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It was the Irish civil servants negotiating on behalf of the EU, the Irish civil servants, the top legal advisers within the EU, those Irish civil servants who have incredible expertise and knowledge, particularly in the issue of loss and damage. We are good at this as a country in terms of how we help the poorest. We do not have a colonial legacy; we have a tradition that goes right back to the missions, followed up by Trócaire, Concern, Goal and other agencies and followed up by what our Department of Foreign Affairs does.

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