Use the form below to get in touch with us. These messages are not monitored outside of office hours, at weekends or Bank Holidays. If your query is urgent (i.e. an emergency) and occurs outside of office hours, please contact the Department on 00353 1 4082000 or alternatively please contact the relevant Irish Embassy abroad. […]
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Use the form below to get in touch with us. These messages are not monitored outside of office hours, at weekends or Bank Holidays. If your query is urgent (i.e. an emergency) and occurs outside of office hours, please contact the Department on 00353 1 4082000 or alternatively please contact the relevant Irish Embassy abroad. […]
Use the form below to get in touch with us. Queries about Document Authentication cannot be dealt with out of hours. If your query relates to another urgent consular case (i.e. emergency) and occurs outside of office hours, please contact the Department on 00353 1 4082000 or alternatively please contact the relevant Irish Embassy abroad […]
Use the form below to get in touch with us. Please note that passport and foreign birth registration queries will not be handled using the below form. If you have a passport related query please follow https://www.dfa.ie/passports/contact/ where our customer service teams will assist you. If you have a query regarding foreign birth registeration, please […]
Use the form below to get in touch with us. Please note that your email address will be validated on entry. The Access Officer is responsible for providing, arranging or coordinating assistance to persons with disabilities who wish to access the services provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Access Officer also […]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including through our network of 80 Missions abroad, supported by 95 Honorary Consulates worldwide offers passport services and consular services to the public. The Department provides consular assistance to thousands of Irish citizens who encounter difficulties while abroad each year. Predominantly this involves advice and support for citizens […]
Procurement must be open and fair and it must strive to obtain the best value for public money. We must be cost effective, efficient in our use of resources, and we must demonstrate the highest standards of fairness and integrity whenever we award a contract.
Dáil Éireann provides money for the services of government departments and offices, both capital and non-capital, by approving estimates for those services in the course of each year and giving statutory effect to the estimates in an annual Appropriation Act. Expenditure is provided for under ‘Votes’, with one or more votes covering the functions of […]
Decision making for major policy proposals The mission of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is to serve the Irish people, promote their values and advance their prosperity abroad, and to provide the Government with the capabilities, analysis and influence to ensure that Ireland derives the maximum benefit from all areas of its external […]
The Department is one of the oldest institutions of State. Ireland’s first foreign minister, Count Plunkett, was appointed by Dáil Éireann on 22 January 1919, and our first envoys were despatched abroad soon after. In the decades since then, the Department has played a central role at key moments of Irish history: from consolidating our […]