Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I have had to look for information in them with regard to bog plots, turf banks, plots of turf and also plots of land that were previously in the Land Commission or attached to a local estate. Turbary rights are registered in them. There are also tenant holdings, as you mentioned. There is information regarding leasehold, freehold and the like. I am open to correction on this but we should write to the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine about it. I went to Cavan looking for records at one stage and I ended up with the Portlaoise situation. It is the first time I saw where all those records are pinned down. At least we know now that they are in place.

It would be useful as well to ask the Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Mr. Brendan Gleeson, for information regarding where they are stored. I believe I know the building in which they are stored and I have some concerns about retaining the quality of the documents. They are probably fragile, as you said. In addition, there is the security of the documents and their accessibility. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine seems to be the responsible body, so we need to ask Mr. Gleeson in the Department to give us an outline on that.

Your point on that is that is only the index or the catalogue that is going to be nominated or-----