Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-28
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Lynn Boylan (SF), Agricultural Panel

I move amendment No. 38
In page 34, line 27, after “person” where it firstly occurs to insert “across a range of appropriate disciplines”.
My colleagues and I tabled this amendment, which seeks to place more emphasis in the Bill on an integrated identification approach that involves a multidisciplinary response. For example, there is no mention of forensic anthropology in the Bill whereas forensic anthropologists would be essential in the analysis of human remains and, in co-ordination with forensic geneticists, to re-associate the human remains recovered so the absence of clearly stating their role in the process risks having unqualified and inexperienced professionals carrying out this work. Working with commingled remains is a highly complex process and it will require experts who have sufficient experience in that process to carry out the work.

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