Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when post mortem results will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); if a death certificate will issue in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11171/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The provision of post mortem examinations in public hospitals is a matter for the hospital concerned in the first instance. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of public hospital services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. The Civil Registration Act 2004, which provides for the registration of deaths, is within the remit of my colleague the Minister for Social and Family Affairs.