Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he proposed to delete the specific words recognising “the sacrifice of the men and women of 1916, who fought and died in the General Post Office (GPO), Moore Street, across Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland, so Ireland may be free” from the private members’ motion on GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter; and the reason these words were not included in his amendment. [38008/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Government is firmly committed to honouring the men and women of 1916. The Government's countermotion to the aforementioned Private Members' Business, which is published in the Official Report of Dáil Éireann of 1 July 2025, clearly reaffirmed this.

In this regard, it is worth recalling that the Government ran a hugely successful and inclusive Decade of Centenaries, including a keynote 1916 Centenary year in 2016, and has invested in key capital projects, including the seminal 1916 Exhibition at the GPO and the purchase by the State of the National Monument at 14-17 Moore Street.