Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

There was a huge digitisation project when they were moved to the new public records office. There was downtime for a couple of years. It has transformed things in the North. There is a good relationship between the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the National Archives. There was an announcement but when you start to look at the timelines, you see they are not very clear. The Department with responsibility for culture places a different value on the records because of their cultural value. They are also important from the point of view of being a working set of records.