Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed)

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to engage with the Minister for Justice to ensure that resourcing does not become an issue. Indeed, what we are seeking to do with the creation of this agency is to have resource-intensive elements of this process addressed through this agency. A relevant example would be the significant resources which will be required for an exhumation on the scale and complexity, initially, of the site at Tuam. That will be undertaken by the agency. As I said, we are disapplying the jurisdiction of the coroner in respect of that particular element.

Turning to the point concerning representations to the agency, I am happy to look at that aspect. If the Deputy would like to refer me to an existing model in use by another agency as an example of what he is thinking about in that regard, I would be happy to explore that as well. The Deputy's request to disapply GDPR is difficult, but look-----

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