John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to modify death certificates to include place of internment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15358/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
Link to this: Individually | In context

An tArd-Chláraitheoir, the Registrar-General, is the person with statutory responsibility for the administration of the civil registration system in Ireland, including the registration of deaths. My Department has made inquiries with the Ard-Chláraitheoir and the position is as follows: the provisions governing the registration of deaths are set out in Part 5 of the Civil Registration Act 2004, and the particulars required to be entered in the register of deaths are contained in Part 5 of the First Schedule to the Act. The place where the deceased is interred is not one of the particulars required to register a death. As the provisions governing the registration of deaths were commenced in December 2005, there are no plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 at this time.