Kells Area
Thursday, 9 April, 2009
 
The Labour Party Candidate for the for Meath County Council in the Kells Area, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that a crematorium should be included in the plans for the new regional hospital.
 
"More and more families are opting to have their loved ones cremated.  More and more people would prefer to be cremated than buried.  This choice is no longer the exception to the rule.  However the limited access to cremation where families at a time of grief have to travel into the Dublin traffic chaos creates an unnecessary burden at a deeply stressful time.  I think the obvious answer to this is that Meath should have it's own crematorium and that this should be looked at in the context of the new regional hospital."

 
"I am therefore calling upon the County Council to revisit this issue and include it as an objective in the County Development Plan at the earliest possible time.  I am also calling upon the HSE planners to look at this issue in the context of the new hospital.  It is vital that this issue is dealt with sensitivity and pragmatism in equal measure.  It does not make sense to me that families have to travel into and out of Dublin and be stuck in traffic for hours on what is a highly traumatic day."