Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their extensive contributions. They are very useful for us and very well set out in terms of the specific asks. I have a question on an issue that a number of people have raised. There is a sense that there are clear asks at this COP. There are question marks over the COP, and the media coverage it has got in recent days has focused on oil deals and everything else that has done been there. There is a specific ask in relation to loss and damage and the hope that we will make some progress on that. There is also a wider piece that a number of the witnesses have touched on, namely, on financial and taxation systems. I know that there have been discussions on it. We have the Bridgetown Initiative, and I am aware that Emmanuel Macron has anchored some climate finance talks. There is also the Inflation Reduction Act that has been passed in the US. Here, Professor Aidan Regan and others have been highlighting the issue. Can I get the witnesses' sense of the importance of progress in that regard, and what that might look like, and the barriers to that progress? What are the vehicles for delivering it? What are the multilateral forums that exist, or are there new ones that might deliver on progress in that regard?