Catherine Ardagh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone for coming in. I thank Ms McKenna; I think it is her third or fourth time to come here. I welcome Ms Ramadhani and Ms Meriwas.

All of the speakers touched on how climate change affects women, for which I thank Ms Ramadhani, Ms Meriwas, Mr. Sadlier and Ms McKenna. Ms Meriwas touched on the idea of having female representation at a higher level in government to reflect the views of women working on small farms. That is something that works. We have seen how greater female representation works in Ireland because female issues come to the fore a lot more. When it was all males who were sitting around the table they were not interested in issues that affected women to the same extent as when women are around the table; it is really important, basic and obvious. I do not think that the men sitting around the table meant to exclude female issues but it is one of those innate biases that one must check oneself for and not just men who are involved in politics. When dealing with people coming to our clinics we have to check ourselves for biases because there is stuff that one will automatically think that one should not think and that happens all the time. It just makes it a lot easier and fairer when we have women sitting around the table. If that is something we can support the witnesses with then we would be delighted to do so.

We have the international climate finance roadmap and we have committed to €225 million by 2025. Am I correct to say that the loss and damage fund goes into the adaptation fund? Does the climate finance roadmap fund directly feed into the adaptation fund?