Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I commissioned this review on foot of the Black Lives Matter protests and the protests that happened in Bristol in particular. I met the chairman of the commission, Maurice Buckley, and I asked him that given the significance of the role the OPW has as custodians for buildings, particularly public buildings, we would carry out an investigation and an initial scoping exercise into all of the public buildings that we have responsibility for to see if we have any monuments, portraits or anything of that nature that portrayed, celebrated or had anything to do with slavery or the slave trade. I have got an initial report back. It is a scoping report for want of a better description. I have asked for a further report to be carried out on this because the initial report has identified a number of sites where there are no monuments per sebut where there are connections, either through families or potential-----