I remember the experience of my colleague, former Senator Pat Gallagher, in his endeavours to find out the history of a case of abuse by a teacher in his constituency. He could wax eloquent for an hour about the obstacles that were put in his way in the Department of Education and Science to stop him finding out what had happened, what complaints had been made and what had been done about the case. This struggle went on for quite a long time until eventually the then Minister, Deputy Martin, to his credit, agreed that progress would have to be made. It was agreed that the then Senator would be allowed access to the Department's records of this case on condition that he did not make copies. He could read the records but could not copy them. This was meant to be the atmosphere of open, honest dealing with parts of our history for which nobody in the existing Department had any reason to feel culpable; the events had happened a long time previously and there was probably nobody from that time left.