Mr. Frank Maughan:

I will try to deal with the questions in order. The Deputy mentioned ambition and the statements about COP24. There was a discussion among some parties on the margins of the COP, not within the EU delegation as a whole, on whether a political statement needed to be made to help the negotiations over the line at the COP. We certainly did not deliberately decide not to sign up to that; it was something that emerged on the ground.