Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 November 2013
29. Deputy Noel Harrington asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider legislation to mandate the civil registration service section of the Health Service Executive to notify all relevant Departments, local authorities and agencies of all deaths registered with it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47949/13]
View answerThe General Register Office (GRO) currently supplies details of all deaths registered by them to the Death Event Publication Service (DEPS) which is the responsibility of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The DEPS is a ‘publish and subscribe’ service where notifications of all the approximately 30,000 deaths registered annually by the GRO are published. Relevant information on each death is made available electronically, to all subscribing public sector agencies. All public sector agencies may subscribe to the DEPS. In the circumstances, it is not planned to review legislation with regard to this matter.
