asked the Minister for the Environment the action he is taking arising out of his expressed concern about the conditions of Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin; and if there are any proposals regarding improvements to the cemetery, or any proposals to help the cemetery's committee to improve existing standards.
Written Answers. - Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin).
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Dublin Corporation, as sanitary authority and burial board for the area, informed me in June 1978 that the unsatisfactory condition of Glasnevin cemetery had again been brought to the attention of the Dublin Cemeteries Committee, which is the body having immediate responsibility in law for keeping the cemetery in a suitable state of repair and condition, as far as practicable, and that the committee had been requested to attend to the maintenance of the cemetery without any further delay. I now understand that recent maintenance work has been concentrated mainly on St. Paul's section of the cemetery about which there were considerable complaints. I also understand that the provision of fencing on the boundary between the cemetery and Coras Iompair Éireann property has been undertaken and that this is expected to reduce the problems of trespass and vandalism.
I am arranging that the question of measures for further improvements will be pursued by the corporation with the committee.