Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has spoken formally with his Australian counterpart in the past 12 months; and if so, the nature of those engagements. [6199/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I last spoke with my Australian counterpart, the then Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann, in July 2020. That engagement provided an opportunity to take stock of global developments, including the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The opportunity to speak formally with his successor, Minister Simon Birmingham, has not yet presented itself, but I look forward to engaging with him at some point in the future as we continue to build on the already close bilateral relationship between our two countries.