Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----authority in Washington bought the entire terrace where President Lincoln was assassinated, but the State has purchased these buildings here and wants to restore them as a national monument, which they now are, in State ownership in a sensitive, authentic restoration. People occupying it are not helping that case and may well be a danger to themselves, given the fragility of some of the buildings there. I have said to Deputy Adams before that the reason that people had to burrow through the gables of the houses to get to 15, 16 and 17 was the machine gun on the top of the Rotunda. They could not use Moore Street. The O'Rahilly was shot and his memory is enshrined on the wall there, as the Deputy is well aware.

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