Caít Keane (Fine Gael)

I am not discussing the Cloyne report. I ask the Leader to write to Dublin City Council to ask it to consider withdrawing the use of the Phoenix Park for the Eucharistic Congress proposed for June. That suggestion was put forward by 500 priests in Fr. Flannery's Association of Catholic Priests, and I support the organisation in its call.

The Eucharistic Congress 1932 was a laudable event and would be still but the decision on the use of the Phoenix Park, the people's park, should be given serious consideration. It should not be decided at the stroke of a pen to hand over the people's park to a group of people who treated the ordinary people and the children of this country in such a fashion and with such contempt. I ask the Leader to write to the City Manger and the councillors about withholding the use of the Phoenix Park. Also, I ask the Leader to write to Archbishop Martin, and to copy that request to Rome, because handing over our park-----