Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 374: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some coroners fail to register deaths noting the deceased person's date and place of birth and parents' names, as required under Part Five of the Civil Registration Act 2004; the measures he will take to ensure future compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25306/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The provisions and procedures governing the registration of deaths in Ireland are contained in Part 5 of the Civil Registration Act, 2004. Where a death is referred to a coroner, section 41 of the Act provides that the coroner shall give the appropriate registrar a certificate containing the required particulars of the death concerned and that registrar shall register the death based on the information contained in the certificate.

The particulars required to register a death are set out in Part 5 of the First Schedule to the Act. The Schedule sets out the maximum information that may be contained in an entry in relation to a death and, on occasion, there may be particulars that are simply not known or available to the qualified informant or to a coroner. In cases where a death has been registered without one or more of the required particulars, it is open to any interested party, who has information relating to any omission from an entry, to apply to the Registrar General to complete the entry, pursuant to an enquiry conducted under the provisions of section 65 of the Act.