Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I welcome our visitors. As the only person from Glasnevin in the room, I acknowledge the great job the Glasnevin Trust has done in the cemetery, which stands out in all kinds of ways. I have a number of questions, the first of which is directed at Ms Goggin and the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority. The authority's four requests to the Glasnevin Trust included that it make its prices clear and inform undertakers of real costs.

I first became interested in this when I met a very distressed woman who had thought it was going to cost €3,000 to bury her husband but found out that it would cost over €9,000. This was sprung on her after her husband died suddenly.

Are the witnesses satisfied that the headstone providers are being treated equally? Are they satisfied that the alternative headstone providers are allowed to advertise in trust publications and so forth?

I understand that we will be suspending shortly to observe a minute's silence-----