Visit by DPM Teo Chee Hean to the United Kingdom and Ireland, 22 – 29 March 2018 [3/3]

Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean is currently in Dublin, Ireland.

On 27 March, DPM Teo was hosted to lunch by Irish Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney.  DPM Teo also met Minister of State (MOS) at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Patrick O’Donovan. In the evening, DPM Teo met the Singaporean community in Ireland at a reception. 

During his meetings with Tánaiste Coveney and MOS O’Donovan, both sides reaffirmed the warm and friendly bilateral relations and discussed global and regional developments. Tánaiste Coveney and MOS O’Donovan expressed Ireland’s continued support for the ratification of the EU–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA).  

On 28 March, DPM Teo met Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy and Ceann Comhairle (Speaker of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament) Seán Ó Fearghail. During the meeting with Minister Murphy, both sides exchanged views on infrastructure, housing and community development, including Ireland’s long term plan for 2040, and discussed opportunities for potential cooperation. At their meeting, Ceann Comhairle Ó Fearghail and DPM Teo exchanged views on governance and welcomed closer parliamentary ties between both countries.    

Over lunch, DPM Teo met Irish politicians including MOS for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection Pat Breen, MOS at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for Financial Services and Insurance Michael D’Arcy, MOS at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Food, Forestry and Horticulture Andrew Doyle and MOS at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government with special responsibility for Local Government and Electoral Reform John Paul Phelan.  

DPM Teo departed for Singapore last evening.  

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PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
SINGAPORE
29 MARCH 2018