Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 17:

In page 22, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 47 of Principal Act

23. Section 47 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

"(1A) Where there is a relevant Ombudsman Commission investigation and a coroner is informed by a designated officer of the Ombudsman Commission that, in his or her opinion, the death of the person concerned whose body has been buried in the coroner’s district may have occurred in a violent or unnatural manner, the coroner may request the Minister to order the exhumation of the body by the Ombudsman Commission.".".

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