Mr. Mark Griffin:

I would like to come back in on one thing that I neglected to answer, before I hand over to Dr. O'Neill. It is on the question that was raised about the role of Met Éireann and RTÉ. The best way to frame it is that Met Éireann is heavily involved in the analysis and support of much of this work, particularly on the adaptation side. It was involved in the national adaptation steering group and contributed to the development of the national adaptation framework, which was published some time ago. It also sits on the steering group for the climate action regional offices. It is involved in the climate information platform, Climate Ireland, which I mentioned in my opening statement. It is also centrally involved from a long-term adaptation perspective with its climatological analysis, forecasts and so on, and it is establishing the national flood forecast and warning service. It is usually involved in the space, therefore.

On RTÉ and the role it could have in public awareness, we would need to think about what we want the organisation to do. If we go out with a communications campaign, it would need to be well structured. Off the top of my head, I see value in a programme like "Nationwide" being involved in this space, and there are obviously other environmental programmes on RTÉ such as "Ear to the Ground".