Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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There was a separate woman anyway. There was an absence of climate change consideration. It was not mentioned. Developed countries are huge contributors to climate change and terrible suffering yet it did not feature in that high-level presentation. We were reassured subsequently that it does feature, but I did not see it. I have run out of time but it is a major challenge. Language is being used all of the time to the effect that we are helping, but we are in fact causing the problems by and large. When I say "we", I mean Ireland and other developed countries.