Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

This is also very important for generations in 50, 60, 70 or 80 years' time, who will not have known their grandparents and want to develop a family tree. Those people — amateur genealogists perhaps — could then find the information on the death certificate. People need to know where they are from and who their forbears were, and having this information on the death certificate would be a great advantage to people who want to know that type of information.