Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will have to go shortly to another meeting so I might ask Deputy Smyth to chair the meeting. The sum of €10 million for digitisation is a minuscule amount in comparison with what is required, given the scale of the amount of material involved. Approximately 95% of museums' material is in storage and has never been digitised. We do not even know what is there or what has gone missing. There is value in putting this online, available or at least recorded in some way. I appeal that we do as much with the national collections as possible. I acknowledge the fund is there over the period of the strategy. I have been trying to get the Minister to fast-track the publication of the census in advance of 2026 for a range of reasons. It is not the only relevant collection and every national institution has a wealth of material that it wants to share with the world. We have the opportunity to do it. I know this takes much money and there is only a certain amount of expertise in the country but it is a bugbear of mine.

I have many other questions but the hedgerows and the roads of Killarney took the time today. We can come back to them at another stage.