Derek Keating (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Question 600: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to legislate for the regulation and management of standards of undertakers nationally; if he has control over the cost of funerals, the cost of graves and the cost of cremation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23964/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I have no plans to legislate for the management and regulation of undertakers.

Under the 1878 Public Health (Ireland) Act, as amended, local authorities, acting in their capacity as burial boards, are responsible for the management, regulation and control of burial grounds provided by them and it is a matter for them to determine the cost of burial plots.

Other burial grounds and crematoria are provided by commercial enterprises or by not-for-profit organisations subject to planning legislation.