Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The site is directly associated with events, ideas, beliefs and works of outstanding universal significance. Does the Minister accept that symbolically the site represents a significant aspect of Irish identity, in that it informs our sense of what it means to be Irish, and that this same landscape is now in a worrying state of decay? The State should without further delay take ownership of the site on behalf of the people.

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