Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and his party's economic team have travelled to Paris to meet Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) officials to discuss economic policy.
According to Fine Gael, following the invitation from the OECD secretary general, the party's delegation will debate the economic recovery and will have access to an "unprecedented level of research" to guide the party's economic plan for the next five years.
Among the other topics that will be discussed will be employment policy, banking reform, tax reform and public sector reform.
Deputy leader Richard Bruton, deputy finance spokesman Kieran O’Donnell and enterprise spokesman Leo Varadkar will will accompany Mr Kenny in Paris today and tomorrow.
The team will meet, among others, Pier-Carlo Padoan, deputy secretary general, and John Evans, secretary general with the Trade Union Advisory Board.