Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress she has made in fixing the date of the national famine memorial day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40517/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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This year’s National Famine Commemoration will take place on Saturday 30 September next at the Ballingarry Warhouse 1848 in County Tipperary.  The National Famine Commemoration Day Bill, which inter alia proposes the establishment of a fixed date for the annual commemoration, passed Second Stage earlier this year.  I understand that a date will be fixed for the scheduling of the Committee Stage of this Private Members Bill in the coming weeks.