Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Mr. Conor Falvey:

Interestingly, the Minister launched the day before yesterday, I think, a proposal for a new expert advisory group here on repatriation and restitution, but that relates to items in Irish collections. There are very good relations building on the Beyond 2022 project between PRONI, Kew and the National Archives in Dublin. They have slightly different models of the way they disseminate the information, but there would be a lot of information even relating to people who may have had ancestors in the British army - for example, in the First World War - or previous records that would be of interest to people in Ireland. We tend to work on an institution-to-institution basis between the archival community more so than leaning in a different way. That tends to work. There is a process of engagement there around the collections but, as I said, there is no specific proposal at present for items to transfer.

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