Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Pre-budget Submission from Dóchas and Global Food Crisis: Discussion

Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

We are requesting that the €225 million be in addition to increases in ODA. When the Taoiseach announced the commitment to climate finance, that was part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits donor countries to provide new and additional finance resources for the full incremental cost of climate change. We cannot afford to displace funds that are needed for all of the different elements about which we have spoken today in the context of humanitarian funding that is needed, funding to support sustainable food systems etc. Funding for all of those elements, which are very much needed, cannot be moved aside and put into a climate finance budget. We do need this in addition.