Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I too raise the interests of future historians and economists. The Central Bank wrote to the Houses asking that we destroy or return all records relating to the banking inquiry. At the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, I expressed the importance that the material be kept somewhere, whether in the Central Bank or the National Archives, to guarantee that in the future when people are looking back, they have access to all the material. Will the Taoiseach, through his Department, check with the Central Bank that it is happening? While I have no problem with the Houses destroying all the records, it is very important that there be a record somewhere, probably in the Central Bank or the Department of Finance, of such material. I am concerned that if we are destroying it, the material should exist somewhere else in archive.

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