Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage of the 2025 budget allocation that was spent on the salaries of staff that are based at each Irish Embassy and or Consulate General Offices worldwide, in tabular form; and if Departmental staff that are based at the Embassies or Consulate General Offices are paid in Euro or local currency where the Euro is not the currency. [68047/26]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade employs both Irish Civil Servants and locally-hired officers who are based in our missions overseas. Below is a table setting out the total cost of pay relating to these staff in 2025.

It is standard practice for missions to pay locally-hired officers in the currency of the country concerned. There is a very small number of cases that where we agree to pay in a different currency. In the case of Irish Civil Servants, who are assigned temporarily to a mission from their normal place of work in Ireland, their salaries are paid in Euro.

Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the term for the post of Irish Ambassador to the United States is next due for renewal. [68049/26]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The legislative framework for diplomatic relations is governed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, an international treaty that provides a framework for diplomatic relations between states. The Vienna Convention was ratified by Ireland in 1967 and incorporated into Irish law by the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act 1967.

Ambassadors of Ireland to countries abroad are appointed by the President on the advice of the Government following nomination by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ireland's current Ambassador to the United States remains in office until such a time as the duly appointed sucessor takes up duty.