Mr. David Seymour:

I watched a very brave woman named Lecretia Seales who had a terrible cancer on her brain stem. She was a lawyer and even in the midst of enormous pain she took a case to the High Court seeking relief for her doctor to assist her to die. The judge in that case ruled that it would be trespassing on the constitutional role of Parliament, and outside the normal role of judges, to grant her her application, even though some would say that it was clear reading between the lines of his finding that he felt a great deal of sympathy for her. At that time I had recently entered Parliament and I thought if it is clearly something the Parliament has to do what is the point in being there if I am not prepared to do it. It turned out to be a much bigger challenge than I anticipated and I was very grateful to have a lot of help from Brooke van Velden. Nonetheless we did it and we quickly found that people were overwhelmingly in favour of the change, as appears to be the case in the Irish Parliament.