Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Lombard. The Ceann Comhairle and I have been working on the issue of the decade of commemorations and we have an Oireachtas commemoration committee, which I am proud to chair and which has representatives from the various groupings. Obviously, everybody's opinions and ideas will be welcome because, as we approach the centenary of the beginning of the Civil War and the Civil War itself, it is a sensitive time and, as we have seen from other commemorations, they have to be handled appropriately and in the right way. People come to them with a generous spirit. We can make sure we do this in a spirit of remembrance and remember what we were fighting for and not what we were fighting against.