Written answers
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Re-interment of Volunteers
8:00 pm
Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 1062: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to have a person (details supplied) re-interred in their home parish; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that they were executed during the 1916 period and were interred in detention barracks known as Collins Barracks, Cork. [1937/06]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I understand from the governor of Cork Prison that, in a previous attempt at re-interment, the body of the person in question could not be located in the grave. The authorities in Cork Prison facilitate visits to the grave for wreath laying by relatives and friends of veterans of the War of Independence and, more recently, by the Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen and Women, ONE. The authorities in Cork Prison will continue to facilitate such visits.
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