The Foreign Affairs Minister will meet Britain's Northern Secretary in Hillsborough in Co Down this morning - to discuss the North's political crisis.
Simon Coveney says restoring power sharing at Stormont, and respecting the results of May's election, is top of his agenda.
Chris Heston-Harris was appointed two weeks ago by Liz Truss and is the 5th Northern Secretary in as many years.
Minister Coveney says he also wants to improve relations with the British government.
"My focus is really to try and rebuild a partnership with the British government, to get back to the institutions and the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement, which hasn't been working for some time.
"The focus has got to be to get devolved Government back up and running again, sooner rather than later, to get North-South cooperation back up and running, and to get Dublin-London cooperation functioning as it should under the Good Friday agreement."
