2. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the G20 in South Africa. [1833/26]

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At the G20 a serious amount of the conversation is on sustainable development. With Storm Chandra, it is fair to say we can see that is not necessarily happening in relation to climate change. We could all come in here and pontificate on the failings of the American President with all the desperate scenarios both domestically in America and internationally. We hope some chickens are coming home to roost and that some sense will prevail but we just cannot tell at this point. I have brought up that my own home town is under severe pressure. Not only do we need to make sure we deal with the issue of climate change, we have to be able to provide the mitigations that are necessary. While huge work is being done by Louth County Council and the fire service, we have a huge level of flooding in Bay Estate, Cluan Enda and Castletown Road as well as out by the Carrickdale hotel on the way north. There could be an element of mitigation that we need to look at. An element of that work needs to be done afterwards while hoping nothing worse happens this evening.

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Irish Water infrastructure as well.

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14. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the EU-African Union summit. [1834/26]

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First, I wish to bring up the issue we are again dealing with, that of an incredibly turbulent, chaotic and conflict-ridden world. The Taoiseach spoke about the huge issues in Sudan. Part of Sudan's issue is that outside players are supplying weapons and absolute heartache, death and slaughter on a huge scale. What we need to see throughout the world is a fairer system. We are dealing with the issues of trade energy but I also refer to the debt that holds Africa back, as well as the absolutely necessity of multilateralism. Unfortunately, the might-is-right ethos seems to be causing damage. We obviously have the issue in relation to climate change but it is about how we introduce this fairer system. While we know it is all about trade, there is also the proper use of overseas aid. We have seen USAID being pulled back, while it was not necessarily always-----

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-----coming from an absolutely benign point of view. Also, regarding climate change and what I said earlier, the problem in Dundalk is that our wastewater system is not up to scratch.

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It will be 2033 before there are upgrades and that is impacting and causing flooding today.

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Yes.

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