Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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736. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has been approached regarding a centenary event to mark the gun landings by the Irish Volunteers on Kilcoole Beach, Co. Wicklow, on 1 August 2014; if his Department intends to mark the event as part of national centenary occasions in the coming years; if funding will be made available from his Department or through other resources to a non-partisan and non-party political local interest group or committee to enable a centenary event to occur next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37124/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD:The founding of the Irish Volunteers and the subsequent import of arms will feature in the Centenary commemorative programme. The official arrangements in this regard are currently under consideration.

I warmly welcome the interest of community and history groups to mark the anniversaries of the landings at Howth on 29 July 1914 and at Kilcoole on 1 August 1914. I would suggest to such groups that contact might be made with my Department so that plans could be co-ordinated and the capacity for support assessed.