Ms Áine Stapleton:

It might be useful to add that we appreciate that there are ongoing challenges with record management. Again, we regret if some of the records Deputy Munster had sought had been misplaced. It is our intention to put more of a focus on that in 2019. We hope to bring an archivist onto our team to bring us some specialist guidance on how best to do that. We are probably not alone in the Department in finding it a challenge to cope, particularly in respect of the large volumes of electronic records. We want to make sure that we are doing this in a way that is aligned will with our statutory obligations under freedom of information legislation, the GDPR, and other statutory provisions, but that also looks forward to make sure that what we do now will meet our obligations under the National Archives Act 1986 in the future. We recognise that we are on a pathway to improving our records management.