The public is outraged by the Government's plan to turn the GPO into mainly shopping units and offices. The GPO is the most iconic site of our country's fight for freedom. It is the place where the Irish Republic was declared and where it was bravely defended during the Easter Rising. It is disgraceful stuff coming from the Government. If that is not enough, the Government refused to name the new national children's hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn, a pioneer medic and a heroine of 1916. The Dáil voted unanimously in April to name the hospital after Dr. Lynn, but that was ignored. Instead, €4,500 of taxpayers' money was spent to come up with a name. What did it come up with? Wait for it - the National Children's Hospital Ireland. Is this a joke? In no other country that fought for its freedom would you have a government so blatantly disrespecting and vandalising its hallowed ground and history. I am sure we all remember that the Tánaiste's party and the Government of which he was part wanted us to commemorate the Black and Tans just five years ago. Given what the Government is doing in terms of the GPO and given the disrespect it shows to Dr. Kathleen Lynn, what have Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil got against the heroic men and women of 1916?

If the Deputy wants to talk about the type of people his party commemorates, here is a photo of his party chair with a member of Hamas. Get over yourself, giving me a history lecture. Here he is - Declan Kearney meeting the leader of Hamas. I think your man from Hamas is dead but Declan Kearney is still here.

The Deputy should not lecture me considering the sort of people his party hangs around with.

What about the GPO?

We do not need any revisionism from him. It is part of his party's support for terrorist organisations across the world-----

The GPO.

-----that has stalled the developments of peace and the release of hostages, who we need to see released.

What will we have? Abrakebabra and Starbucks, is it?

On the GPO, I will first say this. The Deputy's party welcomed the publication of the Dublin city centre task force report, which the recommendation he is now criticising was in. Maybe he should read the documents in future. Second, the GPO is always going to be preserved under this plan as the historic cultural institution it is.

Will we have Starbucks? We can have anything. Perhaps we could have some of the Government's vulture friends.

The GPO is also a massive complex. Let us read the report.

Shameful.

Shameful.

It is not shameful at all.

It is shameful.

In relation to Kathleen Lynn------

The GPO is where they defended the Republic.

Fianna Fáil sits by and says nothing.

It is a Republic that your party worked to undermine. They collected the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe from the gates of a prison. Do not dare present yourself as a defender of the Republic.

The Government will invite Starbucks.

There are gardaí dead in this country as a result of the actions of the army wing of your party.

You invite your corporates in. You shamefully disrespect-----

You know nothing about defending the Republic-----

No other country in the world that fought for Irish independence would do what the Government is doing-----

-----and here you all are with your Hamas buddies.

-----to desecrate the GPO, where Pádraig Pearse stood, where James Connolly fought and where the men and women of 1916 defended the Republic.

Jean McConville. Jerry McCabe.

It is shameful. They fought an empire.

You had a party for the people who collected the killers of Jerry McCabe-----

The Government is inviting multinational corporations to sell their wares. Shame on you. Nowhere else would it happen.

-----and you should apologise.

You should apologise to the Irish people-----

There are gardaí in their graves-----

-----for what you are trying to do.

-----because of your IRA movement.

You are desecrating hallowed ground.

Fianna Fáil stands by.

Ask Jerry McCabe's family about your defence of the Republic. Give me a break.