Sinn Féin’s Louise O’Reilly: 'If you’re lucky – and lucky is the word – you get five days.' Photograph: Eric Luke
A Sinn Féin TD has called for a “discussion” about how bereavement leave is allocated because of increasing delays in the holding of funerals in Ireland.
Louise O’Reilly, who represents Dublin’s Fingal West constituency, spoke about her own personal situation and the death of her mother to highlight the difficulties faced by some families.
“Culturally in this country there’s a short time between the death and the cremation or burial,” and there is a particular impact of these delays, she
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