Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-28
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Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

During pre-legislative scrutiny there was a lot of discussion on the types of disciplines that should be included. A decision was made not to expressly recommend anything because a wider scope allows for the growth of scientific knowledge and so different types of disciplines that, as yet, we do not know or have not been named. As a consequence, there was a recommendation to have appropriately qualified persons to allow the scope to be as wide as possible and for the legislation not to be overly prescriptive because being prescriptive in any way would, perhaps, exclude. So the wording that is there was confirmed and reiterated as part of the PLS process.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-28