Eugene Murphy (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My thanks to the Minister for bringing that reply to the House. It is an acknowledgement that something is happening, and that is to be welcomed. I have to accept there are some working documents in place that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cannot release, but I imagine we could consider releasing some of the material in some areas.

I am talking about the records in the context of a fantastic tourism, history and heritage building in our area, the National Famine Museum in Strokestown. When things get back to some normality I intend to invite the Minister there. A local businessman, Mr. Callery, bought it some years back and he saved so many records. It is amazing how it has led to a tourism product that, before Covid-19, was bringing in 70,000 people to our town and area. There is a major beneficial effect from this. I would like to see the matter developed further. I appreciate there are difficulties, as I mentioned earlier, but it is good to get an answer that something is happening.