Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an Irish consul will be appointed to Libya; when an Irish embassy will be established in Libya ; and if the Libyan National Transitional Council has offered to fund an Irish embassy in Tripoli. [37108/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The scale and deployment of our diplomatic and honorary consul network is considered by the Government on an ongoing basis taking account also of the resources available to us at this time. There are no immediate plans to appoint an Honorary Consul in Libya nor to establish an Embassy there.

My Department is unaware of any offer to fund an Embassy having being made by the Libyan Transitional National Council, which was superseded in 2012 by the current Libyan Government and the National Assembly.