The Taoiseach Enda Kenny will hold a meeting with the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls this morning.
It follows a deal reached in Brussels overnight with EU leaders - to triple the funding for search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and help tackle the migrant boat crisis.
The crisis is expected to be raised as part of Mr Kenny's discussions with his French counterpart.
Mr Valls opened a new French Embassy in Dublin last evening.
EU chiefs also want to push for a UN resolution that would allow them to destroy vessels used by traffickers before they attempt to smuggle migrants across the water.
The agreement follows an emergency Brussels summit after at least 800 migrants on a boat drowned when it capsized off the Libyan coast last weekend.
Around 1,800 migrants have died this year trying to make the journey from North Africa to Europe in search of a better life as they flee conflict and poverty.
This compared with fewer than 100 killed during the same time last year, and there are fears 30,000 could die in 2015.
The rise in funding - higher than expected - to €9m a month is an acknowledgment by the European leaders that it was a mistake to sanction such a dramatic scaling down of search and rescue in the Med last year.
The EU decided to end the Italian navy's Mare Nostrum - in which 27,000 square miles of sea was scoured for migrant boats.
Instead it set up Operation Triton at a third of the cost, which was limited to 30 miles off the Italian Coast and primarily a policing operation.
Although some of the funds will bolster those efforts, there was a clear move to re-establish efforts to seek out search and rescue.
Germany and France have pledged two ships while other member states have also lined up more vessels and helicopters as Triton doubles in size.
There were just 28 survivors from Sunday's boat disaster.
Tunisian skipper Mohammed Ali Malek (27) and Syrian crew member Mahmud Bikhit (25) were arrested following the catastrophe and are due to appear before a judge today.
Prosecutors have accused Malek of inadvertently ramming the overloaded fishing boat into a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship that had come to its rescue, destabilising it.
Malek and Bikhit faces charges of illegal confinement, culpable homicide, and aiding illegal immigration.
An interfaith funeral has been held in Malta for 24 victims, the only ones whose bodies have been recovered so far from the boat where many were believed to have been locked below deck.
