Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in his Department's archive unit in each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; his plans to expand this number; if there are protocol changes arising from changes to the National Archive Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19618/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not have an Archive Unit but there is a Records Management Unit which among other duties has a role and responsibility for the archiving of Departmental files. The Records Management Unit had 5 members of staff in 2010 and has 6 members of staff since 2011. There are no immediate plans to increase this number of staff and there are no changes required at present to the Department's record management protocol as a result of changes to the National Archives Act.