Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

I will finish up on this. A young man from Galway - this is only one family - died in a terrible accident while in America on a summer student visa, but to this day his Irish passport is alive because the law does not recognise the registration of death in Ireland of a person who dies abroad within certain limits, maybe up to five years. It can only be registered in the country where the person died. This Bill presents an excellent opportunity to deal with this issue. I would like the support of Senator Bacik on this. Between now and Committee Stage, we should table amendments to the Bill. The former Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Ó Cuív, was doing a lot of work in this area. We are celebrating people's happiness at every level - birth and marriage. We should recognise deaths in this Bill also.