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"Mr President, I would like to raise an issue about what happens to a non-national worker. Let us say somebody comes to Ireland for a few years to earn some money. What happens if that person is unfortunate enough to die unexpectedly? In the last month alone, there were two cases where three Latvian workers and four Polish workers were killed in two separate road accidents. Obviously the grieving families wish the bodies to be returned home, but in certain cases – not necessarily those I have just mentioned – they were simply unable to afford to repatriate the bodies of their loved ones.
I know of cases in Ireland where local health boards, friends, neighbours, colleagues, etc. raised the necessary funds to bring the bodies home. However, I do not believe we should leave this situation to chance. As a Union we facilitate the free movement of persons. Therefore, either some fund should be set up to help grieving families if they find themselves unable to pay the costs of repatriation and if they are not covered by insurance, or perhaps we might look at the social welfare systems across Europe to see if they could be used to help."@en1
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