Unit: Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam

Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam

Monday 20th of March 2023 - still active

The Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam, is mandated to, inter alia, arrange for the forensic excavation and recovery of human remains buried in a manifestly inappropriate manner and to make final arrangements for human remains recovered. The establishment of this Office relates, in particular, to inappropriate historic burials of childrens' remains on the grounds of a Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, County Galway

From date: 2023-03-20
To date:
Source: Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)
Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Statutory non-departmental body
- Source: Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Functions: Delivery
- Source: Section 10 of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022); Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: General Public Services
- Source: Section 10 of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Source: Section 2 of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022); Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Counties: Galway
- Source: Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022); https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/5c9d9-government-approves-proposals-to-establish-an-office-to-oversee-excavation-at-the-site-of-the-former-mother-and-baby-institution-in-tuam/
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Fairly Confident
Cofog: general services
- Source: Section 10 of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
FOI: yes
- Source: Ministerial Order under section 9(1) of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022); section 6 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30 of 2014)
- Description: Assumed to be within scope of section 6 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Comptrollers: yes
- Source: Section 22 of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Part 3 of the Disability Act 2005 (No. 14 of 2005)
- Description: Assumed to be within scope of Ombudsman review under Part 3 of the Disability Act 2005
- From date: 2023-03-20
- Confidence: Quite Confident
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/act/18/enacted/en/html

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
Institutional Burials Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022)	2023-03-20		Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam

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Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam