Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not opposed to having an interfaith element. I think this should be part of the commemoration. I take on board Deputy Ó Cuív's comment, although I am not so sure this was not historically part of inaugurations. If the Bill moves to the next Stage, I will be open to changing that section to allow for greater flexibility in terms of how the commemoration is organised. However, I do not have a problem per sewith having an interfaith element and I do not agree that we should not have any faith-based element to it. One must be respectful of people who have faith as much as one must be respectful of those who have no faith. The moving of the pendulum too much one way or the other is not the answer.