Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaelteacht Heather Humphreys has denied that a decision regarding the fate of Dublin's Moore Street in Dublin was based on flawed or inaccurate information.
Ms Humphreys told the Dáil that consent for the development of the site, which is steeped in the history of the 1916 Rising, had been granted on foot of detailed consideration of all the relevant factors.
This morning during Minister's Questions, Independent TD Maureen O'Sullivan called on Ms Humphreys to put a freeze on a consent order for its redevelopment.
Ms O'Sullivan told the Dáil that the decision had been based on inaccurate and misleading information, a claim that Ms Humphreys rejected.
The minister said there would be no further assessments of the area.
She said she was satisfied with how the decision to preserve numbers 14 to 17 Moore Street was reached.
Ms O'Sullivan told Ms Humphreys that the whole Moore Street area is a monument and the consent order would see other historically significant buildings destroyed.
Sinn Féin's Sandra McLellan also raised the national monuments site.
She told the minister plans to demolish Moore Street and turn it into a shopping centre would obliterate what the National Museum has called the most important site in modern Irish history.
