Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

I am delighted to able to tell the Deputy that the advertisements for professional archivists appear in today's national newspapers and will also appear in the Sunday papers this weekend. Details are also available on the Department of Defence website, www.defence.ie.

The Taoiseach announced, in the context of the 90th anniversary celebrations of 1916, that the Government had decided to make the military pension archive available to historians and to the public. It is the intention of the Government that the records will be made available in good time for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in 2016. The archivists will assist in this process.

A total of seven archivists, including a senior archivist-project manager, are being recruited. The senior archivist-project manager, along with three of the archivists, will work on the military pensions project. The other three archivists will be recruited to work at the military archive itself to meet day-to-day demands.

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