With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 34, 35 and 36 together.
The future accommodation to be provided for the National Library is bound up with the provision to be made for both the National College of Art and the National Museum. The whole matter is under active consideration at present. In the meantime the matter of providing suitable temporary accommodation for certain of the collections in the National Library is receiving attention.
Library material for which accommodation is not available in the Kildare Street premises is presently stored in the following four locations:—
(a) the basement area under the Law Library in the Four Courts for little-used periodicals and newspapers;
(b) part of the basement of 4 Kildare Street for a collection of manuscripts;
(c) some accommodation in Arbour Hill Detention Barracks made available by the Department of Defence for a further collection of manuscripts: the Department of Defence have been requested to make further accommodation in the barracks available to the Library; and
(d) the basement of the Genealogical Office, Dublin Castle, for collections of family and estate papers.
There is little demand for the material stored in the Four Courts but it can be made available at short notice. The manuscripts collections stored outside the main Kildare Street premises are due for listing.
With regard to the question of typing staff the needs of the National Library in this respect are being examined by my Department at present with a view to arranging for the assignment of additional typists if found necessary.