Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

White Paper on Defence Update: Discussion

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Absolutely. I also want to make it clear that there are no plans for the sale of Cathal Brugha barracks.

The decade of commemorations is the responsibility of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan. Following on from the work done on the 1916 commemorations, which were really successful, there is an all-party commemorations committee. We must be very careful in the context of the decade of commemorations. If an all-party committee worked for the 1916 commemorations, there is no reason it should not work for the decade of commemorations.