Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will recall that as Tánaiste, I fought very hard to get the funding to have the particular houses taken over, which was a very significant step. Now that there is a new Government and the Minister has returned to the Department and given what she said about the significance of heritage, is there not an opportunity at this point to open the dialogue out? As probably the only Deputy from the north inner city in the House at the moment, I note that from the point of the view of the Rising, much of what is between the canals is historic and significant in terms of the history of Dublin and locally. I suggest to the Minister that there is an opportunity here to have an opening out to a concept of Dublin as a historic battlefield site in the context of the core areas affected by the Rising.

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