Ireland's Global Footprint to 2025
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney were joined by a number of Government Ministers to launch 'Global Ireland – Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025’ in June 2018.
This is the Government’s initiative to double the scope and impact of Ireland’s global footprint in the period to 2025.
With the formal launch of Global Ireland 2025, the Government will implement a range of further measures, including:
- Expanding and strengthening our diplomatic and enterprise agency presence across Europe
- Promoting Irish arts, heritage and culture to new generations and new audiences across the world
- Enhancing our digital footprint through a global communications strategy to increase visibility, raise awareness and enhance Ireland’s reputation;
- Publishing a White Paper on Irish Aid Programme, reaffiriming our commitment to delivering 0.7% of GNI to development assistance by 2030;
- Promoting Ireland’s values of peace, humanity, equality and justice, including through our campaign for election to the UN Security Council
- Strengthening our presence in the United States, including a new flagship ‘Ireland House’ – a hub for diplomacy, trade, business and cultural promotion - in Los Angeles, and expanding our presence elsewhere in the Americas
- Expanding our presence in the Asia-Pacific region, including a new flagship Ireland House in Tokyo
- Strengthening our presence in North and West Africa, moving beyond our traditional focus on aid to building new partnerships
- Strengthening our presence in the Middle East and Gulf region.
Global Ireland 2025 will support efforts to grow and diversify export markets, inward investment and tourism, as Brexit becomes a reality.
It will ensure that Ireland is better positioned to build the alliances necessary to advance its interests and defend its positions in a post-Brexit EU, while also helping to secure our deep and positive relationship with the UK and its constituent parts into the future.
At a global level, it will enhance our ability to advocate for and achieve our foreign policy objectives, including international development, peace, disarmament and security, while strengthening Ireland’s engagement with its 70 million-strong diaspora and bringing our rich culture and heritage to wider audiences.
Download the Global Ireland Progress Report
Global Ireland Progress Report Year 1 2018-19