Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

At every turn, this Government chooses to denigrate our history. Why will it not name the new hospital after Kathleen Lynn? It would be a fitting tribute to the Mayo woman who served as the most senior ranking woman in the 1916 Rising, who set up Ireland's first children's hospital and who led efforts to eradicate TB.

The Government should choose a fitting name for the national children's hospital and it must protect and develop the GPO and the Moore Street cultural quarter. The Government is not going to get away with this. The people of Ireland will rise up to make sure that it does not, that it honours our patriot dead and that it does the right thing. Aengus Ó Snodaigh talked earlier about the Government's strategy of delete, delete and delete. The Government will not be allowed to delete this.

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