Mary Henry (Independent)

I hope the Minister will accept this amendment. The most important thing Senator Quinn said was that the State will benefit if people do not see they are on one of these lists. We have to make absolutely sure it is available on the Internet because that is the means by which so many people seek information now. The Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, really made the case for Senator Quinn when he said that nowadays people are using a computer when they think about life assurance policies.

I can remember people such as he described before. Many people tried to get a widow in the village where I lived to take out life assurance so that she had some sort of income. I do not know what happened to her filing system when she died. Now we have to make sure everything is published in a way that can be looked up by most modern people. Some of these will be insurance policies taken out years ago and much younger people will be looking them up, either for relatives or for friends who perhaps do not have access to the Internet.