Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I certainly hope not and I also expect not. In fact, I asked him a direct question on that issue and I expect that we will not see the closure of the embassy. He said he did not intend to take the Israeli Embassy out of Dublin. To be fair, after that conversation, which was at the very end of our discussion, when I asked him to please not pull the embassy out of Dublin because we need to maintain the current relationship, he said he would not. Thereafter, his Finance Minister has had the embassy in Ireland on a list for consideration in respect of savings on embassies. Other than that, I hope and expect that the Israeli Embassy in Ireland will stay in Dublin.

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