158. Deputy Eric Byrne asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities have a records manager in place to deal with information management, as was recently announced by the central policy unit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33465/15]

The management of local authority records is a matter solely for local authorities and one in which my Department has no direct role. Section 80 of the Local Government Act 2001 provides that “it is a function of a local authority to make arrangements for the proper management, custody, care and conservation of local records and local archives and for inspection by the public of local archives’.