Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is the challenge. I am a big believer in controlling what you can control and I am a big believer in Ireland’s foreign policy and public policy being values-driven and evidence-based. From both the point of view of our values and scientific evidence, we know these are the right things to do and, therefore, we need to continue to do them.

Multilateralism is under attack in many different ways. I saw that myself when I attended the G20 in Johannesburg a couple months back, and saw the disappointing contributions from some large countries in relation to multilateralism.

We are on track to achieve the target, as the Deputy rightly said. We have not made a decision to go above that. I am pleased that this year we will meet our target, which we announced in 2021. In 2021, we said we wanted to get to the point of at least €225 million in climate finance per year by 2025, and we will reach that target this year.