Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 1492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the regulations and process to obtain an exhumation licence in order to cremate a body on compassionate grounds; if the regulations are specified in law; if the local authority has discretion on the matter and the reason a local authority would have reservations when the cemetery and undertakers have no objections; if he will outline the criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33040/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Under section 160 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 read with section 46 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948, as amended by the Local Government Act, 1994, exhumation licensing is a function of individual local authorities.