Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Before I hand over to the Foreign Minister to answer questions, I welcome to the Visitors Gallery His Excellency Valeriu Zgonea, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania. He is most welcome to the Irish Parliament and I hope we will see him later.

There are many questions for the Mozambican Foreign Minister. As he can see, members have a real interest in the situation in Mozambique. Let me add one further question. Given that we have such strong relations, that Ireland has a resident embassy in Maputo and that we are obviously eager to grow trade between our two countries, would the Mozambican Government, particularly the Foreign Minister, consider opening a resident embassy in Dublin? It would be a good way to strengthen our relations further, particularly in the area of trade.