Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-06-15
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Kathleen Funchion (SF), Carlow-Kilkenny

I move amendment No. 40:
In page 34, line 11, after “person” where it firstly occurs to insert “across a range of appropriate disciplines”."
The reason for the amendment is that there should be more emphasis in the Bill on an integrated identification approach involving a multidisciplinary response. For example, there is no mention of forensic anthropology in the Bill. Forensic anthropologists would be essential in the analysis of the human remains and in co-ordination with forensic geneticists to reassociate the human remains recovered. The absence of clearly stating their role in the process risks having unqualified and inexperienced professionals carrying out the work. Working with commingled remains is highly complex and will require experts with sufficient experience to carry out the work.
Amendment No. 41 is to insert "the Coroners Act 1962". It is important that any excavation recovery and post-recovery analysis of human remains is in line with that Act.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-15