I propose to take Questions Nos. 558 and 559 together.
Section 18(3) of the Coroners Act 1962 provides that it shall be the duty of an Inspector or officer of the Garda Síochána, if he becomes aware of the death within the district of a coroner of any person in whose case a medical certificate of cause of death is not procurable, to inform the coroner of such death. I am informed by the Garda authorities that An Garda Síochána investigate all deaths which appear to be unnatural, unaccountable, suspicious or as a result of violence. In investigating such a death An Garda Síochána has recourse to section 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 which permits the designation of a place as a crime scene for the purposes of preserving any evidence of, or relating to, the commission of the offence being investigated. Where An Garda Síochána is investigating a suspicious death the location is preserved as a crime scene until such time as all evidence has been secured.