Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

They are looking for co-operation. The transcripts to which I have referred can be transferred to the National Archives in the normal way after 30 years but, under section 8 of the relevant legislation, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, may transfer them earlier than that to the National Archives which is directly within the responsibility of the Taoiseach. We are talking about documents that are now inaccessible for, perhaps, arcane reasons which can be transferred to a place where they may be accessed and be beneficial to the efforts of the Omagh families to prosecute the civil actions concerned.

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