Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I welcome what the Taoiseach said about the plans to commemorate the Great Famine. That is appropriate and the way he proposes to go about it is the right way. Does he anticipate that preparations will be sufficiently advanced to have a commemoration of the Great Famine in 2008?

In respect of the commemoration of the flight of the earls, it is quite interesting to hear the Taoiseach's statement that it is planned to commemorate it along the route through Europe. Does the Taoiseach have plans to emulate the Great O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell and take flight and seek refuge in Europe?

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