Mr. Frank Maughan:

No. I suppose it would be a reflection of the ability of the Minister and the Department to sign up to things on the ground as they happen. Sometimes that is not necessarily possible. It is a function of how the COP meetings sometimes work that there are coalitions of different countries proposing different things which will come into the public domain at the COP plenary at relatively short notice. Ireland undertakes its primary networking through the EU delegation. This statement was not prepared as an EU position.