Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Dalton has made a number of instructive comments as to the need to look not only at capacity in a blunt way, but also at the surrounding social circumstances that might enable or inhibit capacity. One of those is the very inadequate healthcare environment we have in this country, particularly with regard to mental health, which, to be frank, looks set to continue for no short time. Dr. Dalton has been careful not to express a view one way or the other on the question of changing the law but, while that situation persists, does it pose an increased danger to society's attempt to enable people to reach capacity, particularly with regard to so radical and final a decision as this?