Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. The Ministers and others in the House will be aware that I had a legislation, An Bille um Cheathrú Chultúir 1916, 2021, that was passed here in the House on Second Stage in 2021 and has languished in the housing committee, which it probably should not have been sent to. It should have been sent, as originally intended, to the arts committee where at least the concept would have been looked at as a whole. That is not necessarily to do with the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. It was not a new idea. It was based on a Bill put forward by the then Senator Darragh O'Brien, but it has been jettisoned since then.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity still exists, even given that there is a planning application in and we cannot necessarily interfere with that, for the State to step in and ensure that we have an appropriate cultural quarter in that area that recognises not only the history of 1916, but also that of a living market and those who sold and plied their trade on Moore Street for many years.

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