€45m Paris embassy tops State foreign portfolio

Ireland’s foreign property portfolio is worth more than €135m, with the State’s Paris chancery worth €45m alone.

Figures released to Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty through a parliamentary question show Ireland in possession of an impressive array of real estate in many of the world’s capital cities.

The figures include that for the Villa Spada, a listed building in Rome that now acts as the main embassy in Italy, whereas previously it was the embassy to the Holy See.