Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

During the previous Government, Ireland formally joined the Open Government Partnership and one of the first commitments we made was to open data. I take it that the Administration is following up on the Open Government Partnership initiative and is pursuing the issue of open data. For future archives, it is much more complicated to capture discussions between civil servants that are generated around meetings and interactions between Departments when they are in electronic form. I trust there is a very robust, world standard mechanism for capturing proper Government papers for the future that are now generated in electronic form.

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