Mr. Conor Falvey:

The digitalisation of the collections in the institution is critical. As the committee knows, there is a big programme of capital investment in the cultural institutions but there was also a provision under the national development plan, NDP, for digitalisation and we have been making resources available to each of the institutions to support the digitalisation of their collections.

More particularly, in terms of the National Archives, while there is a lot of interest, the greatest interest is around census information. There is a plan in place and being implemented in the National Archives for the digitalisation of the 1926 census. That process has commenced already. Obviously, we are bound by the 100-year rule there. They are not our records. They belong to somebody else.