Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 February 2019
206. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person or body that has responsibility for managing the interment of a person who dies with no assets and no family; the person or body responsible for paying the expenses of the internment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7240/19]
View answerIf someone dies without the means to pay for burial and if this person has no traceable next of kin, legislation provides that the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection may make arrangements for and provide assistance towards the burial of a person who has died and in respect of whose burial suitable arrangements are not otherwise being made.
Contact details for that Department’s Community Welfare Service, which administers these matters, can be found on that Department’s website, www.welfare.ie.
