469. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if local authorities have the legal powers to either remove or direct the removal of memorials in burial grounds which are deemed to be in breach of the law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7076/26]
Topics / Burial Grounds
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsBurial Grounds
16 questions from 7 TDs, between 25 March 2025 and 29 January 2026.
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10. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 363 of 20 May and 79 of 1 July 2025, if he will carry out a feasibility study to assess whether the remains of the Invincibles (details supplied) can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery from their unmarked graves in Kilmainham Gaol, where they were interred in…
79. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will carry out a feasibility study to assess whether the remains of the Invincibles (details supplied) can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery from their unmarked graves in Kilmainham Gaol, where they were interred in 1883; if his office will engage with family members of the Invincibles on this; and if he will make a…
668. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the actions have been taken under the Institutional Burials Act 2022 to protect the sites associated with mother and baby homes; the engagement her Department has had with relevant county councils regarding the memorialisation and protection of these sites; and the steps being taken to preserve the dignity of these burial locations an…
120. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans in relation to the families' demand that the remains of their relatives, members of the IRB's Invincibles, currently buried in a yard in Kilmainham Jail Museum, be exhumed to be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25522/25]
313. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if further consideration has been given to the proposed reinternment of a person (details supplied) and the four other Invincibles in Glasnevin Cemetery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28572/25]
259. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 15 May 2025, that responsibility lies with his Department for any decision relating to a request for the reinternment of remains (details supplied); if he will take the required decision, or put such a proposal to the highest levels of Government; and if he will make a statement on …
363. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will instruct the Office of Public Works to carry out a feasibility study to assess whether the remains of the Invincibles Joe Brady, Dan Curley, Mick Fagan, Tom Caffrey and Tim Kelly, can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery from their unmarked graves in Kilmainham Gaol, where they were interred in 188…
214. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he can acknowledge receipt of communication on 7 March 2025 from the Invincibles Interment Campaign, which is seeking the reinterment to Glasnevin cemetery of the remains of the Fenians currently buried in the grounds of the now Kilmainham Gaol Museum; and if he will make a statement on the matter…
461. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is aware that there is a new private cemetery being developed in Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22958/25]
832. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if an audit has been carried out by her Department and the HSE to identify all of the burial grounds which are in the ownership or under their control, and which said grounds were used for the burial of persons from mental health facilities, mother and baby homes, industrial schools, and other institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14084/25]
833. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the burial grounds which are under the control of her Department and the HSE, by county and which were previously managed by the local health authorities or the health boards, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14085/25]
834. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the details of the process in place throughout each of the HSE areas in respect of the management and maintenance of burial grounds which are in their ownership or under their control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14086/25]
835. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the process that has been put in place by her Department and the HSE to help identify the names of the people who are buried in these burial grounds under their management or under their control, and the institutions from which they resided in prior to their death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14087/25]
836. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if her Department and the HSE have entered into arrangements with local authorities for the management and maintenance of these burial grounds and if any process is in place to transfer the control of same to the local authorities in the respective areas where these burial grounds are situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14088/25]
837. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if there has been any engagement between her Department and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of adopting a joint approach about the management and maintenance of burial grounds under their management or under their control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14089/25]