Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 324: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the body with which responsibility lies for the maintenance of famine graveyards here and in particular, his position regarding the Carr's Hill famine graveyard in Carrigaline, County Cork. [38674/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The maintenance of graveyards is primarily a matter for the owners concerned. The management of public burial grounds is a matter for each local authority and one in which I have no direct function. My Department does not keep records of ownership of burial grounds.

I am advised that Cork County Council is endeavouring to establish the ownership of Carr's Hill graveyard and no decision as to maintenance can be made until this has been resolved.