Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he spoke to the Governor of Washington DC during his recent visit to the United States of America. [48363/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I travelled to Washington DC on 26th September for a series of high level business and political meetings on 27th and 28th. During the mission I met with the US Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai and with Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, two of my counterparts as Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment. I also engaged with representatives from multinational companies at a private roundtable hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce, and gave a public address at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Ireland's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Mulhall, hosted a dinner at this Official Residence on the evening of 27th at which I was able to engage with a number of prominent Irish American Senators and Members of Congress, officials from the White House and the current Biden/Harris Administration, as well as members of the business and economic communities. I did not have any meetings with Leaders from Washington DC itself during the short mission.