Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 685: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will provide the necessary funding for the proposed headstone at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in memory of the Irish soldiers killed in the Korean War; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1131/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am delighted to be in a position to inform the House that, with the assistance of our Consulate in New York, the Irish in Korea War Memorial Committee has been granted permission by the Board of Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn to erect a memorial to the Irish-born citizens who died in the Korean War.

This historic cemetery, the final resting place of many Irish-born generals who died in the American Civil War, is deemed by the committee to be the most suitable location to erect a memorial to the Irish-born victims of the Korean War. Matilda Tone, the wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone, is also buried at Green-Wood. The committee has chosen a site close to Matilda Tone's grave for the memorial.

The Green-Wood Cemetery has agreed to provide the site and the staff to erect the memorial free of charge. My understanding is that the committee considers it has available sufficient funding for the purchase of the memorial headstone.