419. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if the power of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications under section 46 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 can be used to licence exhumation for the purpose of coroner’s inquests, bearing in mind this power was used to sanction the exhumation and cremation of all but one of 155 Magdalene women’s bodies in 1993 in circumstances in which many were not even identified with death certificates. [58369/21]

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419. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if the power of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications under section 46 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 can be used to licence exhumation for the purpose of coroner’s inquests, bearing in mind this power was used to sanction the exhumation and cremation of all but one of 155 Magdalene women’s bodies in 1993 in circumstances in which many were not even identified with death certificates. [58369/21]

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