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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 December 2014

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Questions (92)

Pádraig MacLochlainn

Question:

92. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the policy of the coroner for releasing post mortem reports and the report of the State Pathologist to the family of homicide victims prior to an inquest. [47401/14]

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Written answers

The Deputy will appreciate that I have no role in relation to the conduct of individual inquests. The legislation governing coroner matters is the Coroners Act, 1962. Under this legislation, a coroner is a statutory officer exercising quasi-judicial functions in relation to which he or she is independent. The conduct of the inquest and the release of documents prior to the inquest is solely at the discretion of the coroner.

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