Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 386: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if State papers from the Department of Fisheries dealing with the pollution of lakes in the midlands in the 1970s are available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16598/09]

Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Appropriate papers from the then Department of Fisheries dealing with inland fisheries matters would be eligible for transfer to the National Archives when thirty years old and would ordinarily be available to the public through the National Archives Office. If, however, the files in question relate to issues the management of which continued beyond 31 December 1978, files would not have been closed off until after the events had concluded and the papers on file may not yet be thirty years old and eligible for transfer. If the Deputy would like to be more specific in relation to his query, I will undertake to determine whether the files in question are in the Department.