Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----is commemorate the First Dáil on the day it first met. If we learn nothing else from history, we should learn how key events are commemorated in other states. My point on the Order of Business yesterday was that as we were not yet independent, it would not be known as "Independence Day" but that we should commemorate the meeting of the First Dáil. To be fair to Senator Diarmuid Wilson, he said it was not about it being a public holiday but as a date that would be recognised on the calendar.