Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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71. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with the new Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney. [25304/25]

Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland enjoys a deep and strong relationship with Canada, a country with which we share many values and are very often of like-mind. Increasingly that relationship has an economic focus.

I offered Prime Minister Carney my congratulations on his election victory and said that I looked forward to cooperating with him and with his new Government in the period ahead.

I have not had the opportunity to meet the Prime Minister in person since he took up his new role but I look forward to doing so at an early date.