Ms Katherine Licken:

I thank Deputy Murphy for her question. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Falvey, to respond because he is over the detail of the National Archives. What I would say is that digitisation has been the big success story in the context of the archives, particularly on the census. It is one of our most popular websites. The National Archives are not the only body to do this. The National Library has also digitised and published records, not census records, but birth, death and marriage records.

This is a very exciting project. The Beyond 2022 project is a collaboration with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and through that we have discovered replications of records going back 700 years that were destroyed in the Four Courts. The National Archives found that the records were actually replicated in London and they also found records across the world, which is enhancing the collaboration. I will ask Mr. Falvey to respond on the digitisation in the National Archives more generally.