Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the policy of the coroner for releasing post mortem reports and the report of the State Pathologist to the family of homicide victims prior to an inquest. [47401/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that I have no role in relation to the conduct of individual inquests. The legislation governing coroner matters is the Coroners Act, 1962. Under this legislation, a coroner is a statutory officer exercising quasi-judicial functions in relation to which he or she is independent. The conduct of the inquest and the release of documents prior to the inquest is solely at the discretion of the coroner.