section_path: Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence (2022–2025)
section_name: Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence (2022–2025)
paragraph_text: Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence (2022–2025)
  
  On 17 December 2022, Martin was appointed Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence in a cabinet reshuffle after Leo Varadkar 's appointment as Taoiseach.
  
  On 12 April 2023, Martin met with U.S. president Joe Biden as he toured Carlingford Castle and Dundalk in County Louth, during Biden's four-day visit to the island of Ireland.
  
  In 2023, Martin launched the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, a 4-day, 3-city conference on the subject of International security, to be held in June. The programme for the forum has been criticised by the President Michael D. Higgins.
  
  In March 2024, Martin criticised the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying that "The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law."