Tuesday 21 January 2014 14.54 The Government is to re-open an embassy in the Vatican more than two years after it was closed for cost reasons.
It will be a scaled-back "one-person" mission focusing on development aid and it will be located in new premises in the Vatican.
There was controversy in late 2011 when the Government decided to close the mission on cost grounds.
The Italian embassy was then transferred to the Villa Spada, which had housed the Vatican embassy.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said the return of the embassy in the Vatican will "enable Ireland to engage directly with the leadership of Pope Francis on the issues of poverty eradication, hunger and human rights".
There will be four other new embassies in Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya and new EU member Croatia.
New consulates will be set up in Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and Austin in Texas to aid what is seen as an export-led recovery.
The Irish Aid office in Sierra Leone will be upgraded to an embassy.
The department said the new embassies and consulates will cost €4.7m a year.
It also said that Ireland's embassy in Lesotho will be closed and the embassy in Lithuania will be downsized.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin welcomed the announcement and said the Vatican is an important place of "interchange on questions of global development".
He said that a resident Irish ambassador will enhance relations between the Vatican and Ireland.
Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade Pat Breen said the embassy will provided a vital link between Ireland and the Vatican and the move was a "sensible resolution" to the issue.
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