Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for giving their submissions on this issue. It is very valuable. As a country, we have been speaking about this issue for over a decade. I think Ireland is in the position New Zealand was in two years prior to the referendum. An opinion poll was done in Ireland last week and 75% of the population agreed that we need to change our legislation around assisted dying. That was not just one poll. Over the last number of years it has been very consistent that the people of Ireland want to see legislative change around this. I hope they will see it. It is a process. This committee is trying to work out a model, a template, for how assisted dying can work.

New Zealand is a very good template. It is approximately two years into an assisted dying system and the witnesses are in a good position to explain what it got right and what it got wrong and corrected. This is extremely important.

What got Mr. Seymour interested in this issue? I have been following him for a number of years with regard to what he has done.