The Taoiseach says there is a need to make decisions about what to do about monuments to commemorate 1916, even if those decisions do not suit everybody.

Enda Kenny is being quizzed in the Dáil about what will happen to houses on Moore Street in Dublin - the last stand of the rising.

He says the government does need to act on this issue now for the commemoration in 2016.

It was revealed in April that the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) are to make €5 million available to a monument project being planned for Moore Street.

The investment is to fund the development of a National Museum and Commemorative Centre to celebrate the historical significance of 14 to 17 Moore Street.

NAMA currently have possession of lands, which include the Moore Street Monument.

The buildings of 14 to 17 Moore Street were the last meeting place and headquarters of the provisional government, which was set up during 1916. The buildings are widely reported to be the site of the final surrender of the 1916 rebels.

A report from the Moore Street Advisory Committee has said "Moore Street and its environs were sites of great significance during the final days of the 1916 Easter Rising".

It cited the evacuation from the GPO, the tunneling between the houses and the decision to surrender - taken in Number 16 Moore Street - as just some of the events which have given the area its "status as the birthplace of the Republic".