Mr. Sorley McCaughey:

Senator Cáit Keane referred to climate justice. She is correct that we have not included the issue of compensation for loss and damage in our submission, but we did not set out to cover everything. The principle of climate justice has been signed up to not just by development organisations but also by the Government, most recently by the Tánaiste at the Dublin conference on hunger, nutrition and climate justice. That undertaking has implications, one of them being a requirement to honour commitments to developing countries to assist them in adapting to the changing climate. To that end, we would like to see climate justice set out as one of the guiding principles of the Bill, together with a commitment to policy coherence across the Government. These are the principles which should be guiding the development of climate policy. Policy coherence is important to ensure that Ireland's emissions are not undermining the development work of Irish Aid and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.