Written answers
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Department of Defence
Defence Forces Property
2:30 pm
Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 331: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for digitising the aerial photographic archives of the Defence Forces for publication on the Internet in view of the education and heritage value of such a project and the popularity of modern day aerial photography technologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21413/10]
Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The Air Corps provides an aerial photographic service for the Defence Forces. Photographs produced at the request of the military authorities were done so for security or Air Corps operational reasons. They were never produced or categorised with a view to making them available to the public. In the past, the Air Corps provided an aerial photographic service to Ordance Survey Ireland. This arrangement is now discontinued but Ordance Survey Ireland may be able to provide information on the photographs retained by it. There are no plans in place to commence a project to publish the aerial photographs held by the Defence Forces. Aside from security issues involved, it would require significant expenditure of manpower and resources which could not be justified in the current circumstances.
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