Gerard Craughwell (Independent)
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Is there a need or reason to retain these records? I am not at all convinced there is but if there is a reason to retain them, could they not be sanitised? Could the names be removed, with people referred to as "Victim A, B, C or D", up to 1,500 or 15,547? As some of my colleagues have indicated, we live in a country that is essentially parish-based. People live in parishes that were subjected to this and they have their good name intact. In 75 years, we might hear something akin to a person's grandfather "taking the soup", which is a phrase still thrown around the country. I recall being down the country at one stage and hearing somebody referred to with a particular title. I thought it was the surname but I found out some time later that it was a remark used to reflect the fact that the family "took the soup" several hundred years beforehand.