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

If there is a burial that is inappropriate in another site, this legislation can apply. The legislation is not site-specific. It can apply to any situation where a manifestly inappropriate burial is located. However, we also must recognise that the scale of what we are doing here, the scale of the exhumation and recovery of human remains, is a very significant intervention. In the context of Tuam, everybody recognises that there is no question but that it is necessary. In the context of other institutions, there are differing views among relatives of family members buried there as to whether they would like to see a similar intervention. That is why the standard before the State can propose to intervene is set at manifest inappropriateness.