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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
Pat Buckley: It is interesting. Listening to the first half of the Minister of State's response, I thought it was brilliant that she outlined the whole history of the LÉ Eithne for me. We will lose all of that. I am disappointed by the fact that the contracts have been signed, but contracts can be pulled. I will go to both Ministers who are responsible because, as I said, the amount of history...
- 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)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Butler: However, I will relay the Deputy's disappointment.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)
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- 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: I am taking this Topical Issue matter on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence. I thank the Deputy for his statement and interest. In July 2022, the then Minister for Defence accepted the recommendation of the joint civil military working group on decommissioning that the decommissioning and disposal of three Naval Service ships, namely, the LÉ Eithne, LÉ Orla and...