Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The State does not own the properties right up along Moore Street where the O'Rahilly was shot up as far as the Rotunda. The State now owns the national monument and has responsibility for it. The State wants to do a very sensitive, authentic revising of the quality of the buildings that were there. As Deputy Adams will be aware from recent press comments and from confirmation in those press comments, the buildings on either side were either in ruins or were not authentic in previous years. For the State and the Office of Public Works to do a very sensitive job here is, in my view, an important consideration as part of the overall contributions to the centenary commemorations of 1916.

It is a matter for the elected representatives of the city council to deal with the plan-----

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