Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to implement the decision to name a day as national famine commemoration day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10023/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The National Famine Memorial Day Bill, which inter aliaproposes the establishment of a fixed date for the annual commemoration, passed Second Stage last year. A date has not yet been agreed for the scheduling of the Committee Stage of the Bill. I understand that the issue of a money message in respect of this Bill remains under consideration.