Funeral fee would fund regulator for directors

An extra set fee on funerals is being proposed to help create a regulatory body to monitor the professional conduct of funeral directors.

The €25 fee is based on a Canadian model and would amount to a fund of nearly €750,000 annually.

It was proposed by Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness, chairwoman of the national council on the end of life as part of an international funeral director convention held in Dublin this weekend.