Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 937: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will give local authorities the power to introduce regulations and control of graveyards (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33452/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The management and maintenance of a local authority burial ground is entirely a matter for the local authority concerned and one in which I have no direct function. Local authorities have a general power to make bye-laws. The making of such bye-laws is a matter for decision by individual local authorities and is a reserved function of the elected members. I understand that several local authorities have already made bye-laws in relation to graveyards in which they have an interest.