Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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139. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met the church leaders recently. [27555/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Like public representatives generally, my predecessor met church leaders informally from time to time in the course of attending official or public events. Last year in particular, with the 1916 commemorations, he attended many events that were also attended by representatives from various religious groups.

Bilateral meetings have been held with representatives from the Catholic Church, Church of Ireland, the Jewish community, the Islamic community, Atheist Ireland and the Humanist Association of Ireland as part of the Structured Dialogue Process between 2013 and 2015. A meeting was also held with an ecumenical delegation of European Churches in the context of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2013.

My predecessor reported to the House on all the meetings held under the Structured Dialogue Process in replies to various Parliamentary Questions since 2013, most recently on 15 June 2016 and 28 March 2017. No meetings have been held under the Structured Dialogue Process since the General Election.