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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Butler: To reiterate, a number of organisations, including Dublin Port and the local authorities in Cork and Limerick indicated their interest in taking the LÉ Eithne as a museum piece or a tourist attraction, following her decommissioning in 2022. However, despite extensive engagements and lengthy discussions and inspections all these parties withdrew. Dublin Port commissioned two reports in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for taking the question. There seems to bit of a Cork contingent here tonight, for a change. I wish to read into the record a statement from the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Gaeilge, the Gaeltacht, arts, culture and heritage, Deputy Ó Snodaigh. It is to do with the scrapping of the LÉ Eithne. It states: Opting to scrap the vessel without even...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Butler: ...In effect, these three ships had reached the end of their working lives and were not in a condition for continued operations. As the Deputy is aware, LÉ Eithne was originally constructed in Verolme Dockyard in Cork and was completed in 1984 as a helicopter patrol vessel. She was the last ship of the Irish Naval Service to have been built in Ireland and, as such, occupies a...