Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

In the past the State funded and ran groups such as the 1798 committee. That committee was set up in the Department of An Taoiseach and it worked very well. The same process occurred when commemorating the Famine. I thought the Department would have set up some type of commemorative event or at least mark the occasion of the founding of the IRB. Is there any person within the Department who looks at future events which the State should commemorate? The State should do this, rather than always depend on small, underfunded groups to come up with initiatives.

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