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

The only thing is that time is marching on. In my view, the biggest event of that period was the democratic decision by the Irish people for independence, which was not something that Britain decided but that we decided for ourselves. This is the election of 1918 which led to the foundation of the first Dáil on 21 January 1919. It would be right that the Dáil or the Oireachtas as successor of the First Dáil, would have a major input into what I would hope would be a very major national celebration of the founding of democracy in this country.