Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie CHARLIE FLANAGAN HAS welcomed the passing of a new law which allows the families of missing people to declare them as dead.
Speaking after the Bill completed its final stages in the Seanad, the Minister for Justice and Equality said: “The families of missing persons often feel like they are living in limbo. The Bill will allow the families of missing people to apply for a ‘presumption of death order’. This order has the same effect in law as the registration of a death under the Civil Registration Act 2004.
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