Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 38

In page 34, line 27, after “person” where it firstly occurs to insert “across a range of appropriate disciplines”.

My colleagues and I tabled this amendment, which seeks to place more emphasis in the Bill on an integrated identification approach that involves a multidisciplinary response. For example, there is no mention of forensic anthropology in the Bill whereas forensic anthropologists would be essential in the analysis of human remains, and in co-ordination with forensic geneticists, to re-associate the human remains recovered so the absence of clearly stating their role in the process risks having unqualified and inexperienced professionals carrying out this work. Working with co-mingled remains is a highly complex process and it will require experts who have sufficient experience in that process to carry out the work.