Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

Is the Minister of State including the buildings on Moore Street in the figure of 76? That battlefield site was the birthplace of the Irish Republic. It was the last stand of the Volunteers in 1916, whom many of us will celebrate on Easter Monday. Those buildings lie on a street that was synonymous with the vibrancy of the Dublin markets years ago. It gives me no pleasure to say it, but Moore Street is an open toilet now. It is a derelict location that, according to the people who work there, is a dangerous place at night. It is frozen in its dereliction because there has been a battle over the past ten or 15 years with a number of large property owners. None of their property objectives have come to fruition. As a result, everything there has been stalled. However, the buildings owned by the OPW on Moore Street could easily be developed now into a wonderful national museum and heritage site of great interest to, enjoyed by and educational for the people of Ireland and tourists from abroad.

Moore Street itself could become a vibrant public market to compete with the public markets of major European capital cities.