Official Visits: Irish President

Lord Laird
asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many official visits the President of the Republic of Ireland has made to Northern Ireland in each of the past five years; and what they estimate to be the total cost to the United Kingdom of those visits. [HL2798]

Lord Rooker
There have been no official visits made by President McAleese over the past five years. However she has made a number of private working visits to Northern Ireland during this period.