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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Obviously, certain records and documents are pivotally important for us in understanding what happened in the past. They are also important for individuals in respect of how they were treated by the State in the past. Is the Minister saying those criteria will not come before Deputies again and that it will be the decision of a Minister and the National Archives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned the Departments that will have more work to do will not get extra funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a zero-sum situation. If a Department has a particular budget and then has more work to do in one element of it, obviously then some other element of that Department's responsibility will be cut to a certain extent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: There are also extra costs to the National Archives. I know there is an €8 million capital plan, which we commend. I imagine the National Archives will have extra costs in processing this. Will that element receive extra funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: That is extra funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the level of non-compliance among Departments? Which Departments are the greatest sinners in this? Is there radical non-compliance of, for example, over 10% of the documents that are more than 30 years old not having gone through this process yet or are the figures marginal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Will we be able to get that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Very good. That will be very interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: That concludes the consideration of the topic. I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for their assistance in the consideration of the issue. We will suspend briefly to allow the officials to change over. We have one further issue to discuss with the Minister and that is the issue of viable rural communities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We will resume in public session to discuss what it takes to maintain viable rural communities with the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Heather Humphreys. I welcome the Minister again. I also welcome the Minister of State at the Department, Deputy Michael Ring. We are also joined today by Mr. Aodhán MacCormaic, stiúrthóir na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat a Aire. I remind members of the committee that we have only 30 minutes for this segment. I ask them to be good and tidy around time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We are already over time on this section.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy, please. We have 20 minutes left for everybody else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I might put a few questions to the Minister. I understand what she says about negativity and that too much negativity will not necessarily sell an area. I suppose sometimes if an Opposition Deputy does not focus on problems, they will not be fixed either. One is caught between a rock and a hard place in that regard. In economics there is a view that one should get the economic model...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the Renewable Energy Feed In Tariff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I will let the Senator back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I invited the Minister to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a brief question on that for the Minister. I believe a private company is delivering rural broadband currently. That is altering the number of people in the remit for the tender. I hear that is having a negative effect, or at least the changing of the tender parameters is causing difficulties in regard to the procurement process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The changing of the parameters of the tender is causing difficulty because there is a shrinking section that is now up for tender.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: When will the tender be issued?