Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I just have one small question for the Minister. For some reason it is proposed that the national Famine commemoration will be in Munster again next year. Since it was set up, it has always rotated between the four provinces because the Famine was not a local event but a national event which affected the whole island. Is there any particular reason the Minister has broken with tradition and is having the Famine commemoration in Cork next year rather than up in cúige Chonnacht? What did the people of Galway do? We were very badly hit by the Famine. There are some very harrowing descriptions of it from places such as Cois Fharraige.