Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland and Finland share very cordial ties. We are like-minded EU partners and our bilateral relations are warm and constructive.

Our countries have well-developed and long-standing cultural and people-to-people connections, trade relations and partnerships on the international stage, including proud records of peacekeeping. Finland also played an important role in the Northern Ireland peace process for which we remain deeply grateful.

In 2022, we celebrated 60 years of diplomatic ties, which I was pleased to have been able to acknowledge during my visit to Helsinki in April of that year as Taoiseach.

At the time of her election last year, I congratulated Minister Valtonen on her appointment as Foreign Minister, and I have met her on numerous occasions since at meetings of EU Foreign Ministers.

A standing invitation for Minister Valtonen to visit Dublin has been extended through my officials and I hope an opportunity can present itself for her to visit Ireland.