Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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583. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times the Irish Ambassador to United States has visited Norfolk in the state of Virginia in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and the purpose of each visit. [14041/23]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland’s Embassy in Washington DC, as our representative office in the United States, leads on Ireland’s political, economic, and people-to-people relations across the United States. In addition to the Embassy’s engagement on a national scale, it also has consular responsibility for Washington, DC and the surrounding states of Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia.

No official visit to the city of Norfolk in Virginia was undertaken by Ireland's Ambassador to the US in 2022 or to date in 2023. However, officials from our Embassy, including the Ambassador, have in recent years visited and met with Irish and Irish American groups in Southeastern Virginia, including the Irish American Society in Virginia Beach and the Coastal Virginia GAA.