Mr. Dualta Roughneen:

Practically, I would not be doing my job if I were not to say it is great to see the increase in ODA. I would not be doing my job if I were not to say there needs to be more. For sure, we need to move towards the 0.7% target. I had a small bit of PTSD when I heard Mr. Gaffney talk about 2008 and 2009. It would be interesting to see a solid financial commitment around ODA to avoid a repeat of that situation. In mid-2009, I think, we had contracts with Irish Aid, essentially with the Irish Government. Mid-year those contracts were essentially cut by 20%. The contract was essentially changed, and we had made commitments in five or six countries in west Africa. We had to go to the people we work with and say, "The Irish Government said it would give us this; it will actually give us less now."

A huge amount of work is needed. It took many people a good few years to recover from that almost emotionally and psychologically but also from a fiscal perspective inside various organisations. Definitely, avoiding that in future is hugely important. The increase in ODA is a good thing. We talk a little about the climate financing from a CBM perspective as well. One of the areas we are looking at is ensuring that climate financing is disability-inclusive. It is matter of adaptation programmes. There needs to be engagement and involvement with people with disabilities' organisations to ensure that those adaptation programmes are relevant and make sense for them, whether it is in some of the small island developing states like Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands or elsewhere, and a climate-proofing or climate adaptation will be done. One cannot not involve people with disabilities because they are the ones most at risk from a lot of the impacts of climate change we see. We would say that, with the climate financing, it is a matter of trying to make sure there are means to bring people with disabilities' organisations into that financing as well.