I welcome the Minister's willingness to consider issuing a Green Paper on the matter and I should like to ask him if he feels from his experience to date—I did so from my experience in Government—that the Official Secrets Act is antiquated and absurd in many of its provisions and that there is an urgent need for revision of that Act?

That section was introduced in 1964.

It was left antiquated.

I introduced that Act in 1964.

(Cavan-Monaghan): Perhaps the views of the Minister for Health have changed since then.

It may be true that the Act was introduced as recently as 1964 but is it not the nub of the question that there has been an increase in State bureaucracy with the result that a new situation has arisen? That could be answered if the Minister told us that he would consider seriously issuing a Green Paper on the subject.

I do not see the need at present to change the procedures. The Government Information Services are available and most Government Departments have information services.

Not all.