Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am fully in agreement with the Deputy. We need to go the extra yard to ensure that we do not allow disputes over planning or anything else to in any way obstruct from the singular dignifying remembrance of a seminal event in our history. The GPO development will be particularly important. As the Deputy is aware, there is ongoing construction work there which will be completed in time for 2016.

I agree with Deputy Fleming that the difficulties in respect of the Moore Street site and the initial plans of Dublin City Council need to be overcome. I have said that those of us in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will do all we can to ensure that the site in Moore Street, which was the final location of the insurgents' activities, would be in a proper state by 2016.

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