Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 February 2013
626. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there is no coroners' report for 44 of the 48 tragic victims of the Stardust Disaster, Dublin, of February 1981; if the inquests will, therefore, be re-opened in order that a verdict on their deaths can be recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5169/13]
View answerI understand that inquests into the deaths of the victims of the Stardust Fire were held between 1 and 4 March 1982 by the Dublin City Coroner, sitting with a jury, and that verdicts were returned. Under the Coroners Act, 1962, a Coroner is a statutory officer exercising quasi-judicial functions in relation to which he/she is independent and neither I nor my Department has any role in individual cases or in reviewing the verdict in any particular case.
