Anne Ferris (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance if funding will be made available to the National Archives to properly preserve the records of psychiatric hospitals as highlighted in a recent television programme (details supplied); if these archives will receive statutory protection; if all archives for each hospital have been investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23960/11]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The allocation of funding for the National Archives is a matter for the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. However, issues concerning the statutory protection of medical records and investigation into hospital archives are a matter for the Minister for Health in the first instance.