The papers of the Department of Finance and of the former Department of the Public Service — which, since 1987, has been amalgamated with it — relating to the Commission on the Status of Women have been preserved and are retained in the Department's registry pending their transfer at an appropriate time to the national archives.
The working papers of, and submissions to, the 1970 Commission on the Status of Women never formed part of the records of my Department. They were, however, housed for a time on the premises of the Department of the Public Service and my understanding is that they were disposed of more than ten years ago. This information was, I believe, brought to the Deputy's attention some years ago when she was Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach.