Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

The former leader of Senator Hayes's party, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, as Taoiseach, took personal charge of introducing national archives legislation. I happen to know this owing to certain issues in which I was involved in 1992-93 to do with whether any reference to discussions at Cabinet, even if they were about the Cork Milk Marketing Board, were allowed or disallowed as a result of the Hamilton judgment in the beef tribunal. The net point is that the national archives have been under the Department of the Taoiseach since the time of Dr. FitzGerald, if not earlier.