Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

-----and we are great people. The unity of our people and of orange and green and all the shades in between should be the objective of this Parliament and it is a constitutional imperative on successive governments. What is happening in the Moore Street environ is a metaphor of the state we are in. Go up the back entry of this iconic building, No. 16 Moore Street, and one will find an open sewer. This is the reality. With regard to the Carlton Cinema site, very few places would commemorate the proclamation of a republic and the first blow against an empire which controlled most of the globe at that time with the type of cinematic modern development that will be put there.

We agree on one thing: there is an opportunity to develop this for educational and historical reasons, for tourism and to show a sense of pride in those who went out and fought and died for the freedom of the people of this island. However, unless the Government decides to do something about it as opposed to the revisionist history we sometimes hear then I fear we will miss this opportunity.

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