Harry Clarke Geneva Window
The Deputy Leader supports efforts to return Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window to Ireland for The Gathering and notes the importance of celebrating the artist’s work.
Senator Ned O'Sullivan referred to an anomaly in medical care in the south. I will ask the Leader to pass on that concern to the Minister for Health.
Senator Cáit Keane raised the issue of the Geneva window, the Harry Clarke window currently in Miami. I thank the Senator for raising that issue as I had meant to do it. I had the privilege of meeting Mr. John Mulcahy of the Irish Arts Review in the last couple of days and he is really pushing this issue. He made the sensible point that it would be wonderful to have this window brought back to Ireland for The Gathering, even on loan from the gallery. I will write to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to ask him to look into this. The Senator might also take up the issue directly with him.
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Harry Clarke is one of our great artists and to have the window back for The Gathering would be hugely important.
We all join Senator David Norris in thanking the Cathaoirleach for the issuing of certificates marking our time as Senators. It is very nice to have it on the wall.