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

Ms Katherine Licken:

That is what I was saying, that when the Four Courts was burned somebody went and meticulously picked up bits of manuscripts that were charred and stored them. What they discovered when they embarked on this project was that the UK had kept copies of an awful lot of the records, so all was not lost, actually, and they are being retrieved. I do not have the figures. I might get Deputy the figures as to what has been retrieved in that project in terms of 700 years of records that we thought were lost.