Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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625. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she will re-establish the decade of centenaries all-party committee which has not met since February 2016. [17923/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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In the lead up to the State’s commemoration of the centenary of the events of 1916, the All-Party Consultative Group on Commemorations proved very constructive.  In the upcoming years to 2023, and the various historical events falling to be remembered, such input will again be beneficial in informing the State Commemorative Programme for the remainder of the Decade of Centenaries.

Last September, my predecessor Minister Humphreys, wrote to the Ceann Comhairle requesting the Business Committee to nominate Deputies and Senators to the group.

Parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that are not represented in the Dáil or Seanad were also requested to make nominations.

Some nominations from the Dáil, Seanad and Northern Ireland Assembly remain outstanding, but I expect most of these to reach me shortly.  I will then be in a position to convene an early meeting of the Group.