Ms Finola Finnan:

I thank Senator Ardagh for that. Talking about some of the forgotten crises, what we have not spoken about much today is the impact of climate on the humanitarian crisis we are experiencing. As Mr. MacSorley said at the outset, it is conflict and climate, and we have a real opportunity with the COP coming up to play a leading role as Ireland in that.

Talking about forgotten crises, Somalia has had terrible floods, with 1.5 million ha of land now underwater. That is 21% of the size of Ireland believed to be affected, so it is huge, and 200,000 people in the Gedo region, where Trócaire works, are suffering as a result of that and what they are calling a once-in-a-century event.

The issue of climate is one on which Ireland has played a leadership role in terms of COP and getting the loss and damage fund up and running. It is to be hoped we can also play a leadership role in that. I will bring in my colleague, Ms Curran, to talk about some of the figures for that, but we have just done a report. That fund is an empty bucket at the moment, but we need to make sure it is filled by the wealthy countries on the basis of equity and that it is transparent. We hope Ireland can make a pledge in that regard. We have also done some modelling to look at what Ireland's fair share is and we estimate it to be €1.5 billion. I will hand over to Ms Curran to talk about some of the figures in more detail, but if we are to address this unprecedented scale-up in humanitarian crises we see, we also need to address the humanitarian climate crisis that is causing much of the suffering we see in many places in the world.