Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

We want to give the committee representatives an input into the immediate event. They may come up with some useful suggestions for the afternoon rather than the high-society event. Next week I have a meeting with the President of Liberia and have to visit our troops there and see the situation. People from the Taoiseach's office will chair the backup committee and I will be ably represented at that meeting by my intelligent and versatile colleague the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche. I do not know whether anybody who was in the GPO in 1916 is still alive.

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