Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I am not a member of this committee but I welcome the presentations, which were very informative. It is something in which many people have a general interest. I note that several submissions note the quality of the General Register Office for Northern Ireland's recent digitisation projects. What aspects of those projects do the speakers believe can be replicated?

The speakers said that the General Register Office's new facilities are less than ideal. Do they think they can be brought up to scratch? What needs to be done to bring them up to scratch? I note that while it is a very valuable resource of researchers, the Irish Genealogy website has a number of omissions, which speakers noted in their presentations - births and deaths, British consular birth and death records, Boer War and Word War I deaths. Do the speakers believe they should be moved from Roscommon or it is merely the case that they should be available online?