It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that five years is not an adequate period for this purpose. As the high level group established by the Government to review the operation of the Act stated: ".as experience is gained in the operation of the Freedom of Information Act, it is evident that a five year moratorium on the release of Cabinet records is too short. It does not give Ministers the assurance that they require to commit views freely to the record if those views are to be divulged in such a relatively short space of time". I have no hesitation, therefore, in recommending to the House that the restriction of five years for Government records should be raised to ten. A ten year limit still leaves Ireland with a liberal regime. In other jurisdictions, such limits range from ten to 30 years. Canada, for example, operates a blanket restriction for 20 years on a wide range of records under the general heading of "Cabinet confidences".