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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: That is interesting. One third of people seeking these prescriptions do not go ahead and use them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses. I found that interesting when Professor Madden mentioned it. Mention was also made of Canada and the process of introducing a measure to allow a person to give a advance waiver of final consent if they have lost capacity at that time. Nowhere else in the world currently has this process where it is possible to give a waiver in advance. I do not want to suppose....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Yes. I have one more short question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Mention was made that in the state of Victoria in Australia and in New Zealand a doctor cannot initiate the conversation on assisted dying. What are the consequences of that? Are there medical consequences? I had not even thought about the issue of the difference between capacity in terms of being unconscious per seand whatever we might think of as being the other variations of that. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I have one question around conscientious objection, where in some jurisdictions - and correct me if I am wrong - a doctor is not required to refer someone on if there is a conscientious objection. Did I pick that up correctly? Did somebody say that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Under our current framework, I presume we would probably have to include that there would have to be a referral onwards. Within our own framework, if we were to include or not include that, would we then have to change other ways that medicine is done here?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I was just at a briefing by the local drug and alcohol task forces in Buswells Hotel. They were talking about investment to support and aid their recovery. I am sure they will have circulated the information to everyone and I need not go into great detail. Drugs and alcohol do not only affect the communities people might think of. There were representatives from Ballymun, Dún...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. We went through this before when we talked about a dignified death. I do not know that we even provide now for a dignified death for every person in Ireland. We touched on this before in the committee, in terms of people dying homeless on the streets or suffering because medicine has not caught up. I asked previously if it is possible to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Yes. For the two Irish-based witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Professor Huxtable might be able to answer this question. I am still trying to get my head around the concept of morality and right and wrong in different countries. Unfortunately, it feels rather pressing on this particular issue that we somehow get this right. I do not know how we come about that. In some countries this has been deemed permissible and then in other countries it has been...

Seanad: Local Government Matters: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: Ahead of these statements, I canvassed Labour Party members, both councillors and local area representatives, to get their feedback. I also spoke to a few people who are not members of the Labour Party, which should put the spooks up some of the other parties in that we canvassed far and wide to get an idea of what people are experiencing. I would need an hour to go through all of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: I hope the witnesses can hear me okay as I am tuning in from my office. I thank them for their extraordinarily comprehensive and insightful opening statement and contributions throughout. They are all volunteers yet they are the leading source of information in this area in Ireland. Listening to them has been excellent. Nearly all the questions have been asked at this point. Every week...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: As an out political woman - although I prefer the term activist - it is great to be able to respond to an out leading light of the LGBT community. Often when we hear news from the United States, it can be depressing. Sometimes we are watching one of the world's largest democracies fade away. That is why it is important that we hear from governors such as Governor Healey who is not afraid...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: As I think every Senator here has spoken and I do not see any other Senators wishing to commence I will go to the Minister of State, who has 15 minutes.

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: Senator O'Loughlin moved an amendment on behalf of the Government. Is the amendment agreed to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses; this has been really interesting. Is it possible for us to get to a point of truly voluntary decisions when we would nearly have to live in a utopia for that to be so? I truly mean this in the least facetious way possible. Is that possible without living in a utopian society where there is no class division or poverty and where every single person has access to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: Yes. As we trudge towards this ideal utopia, does Dr. Campbell think it is possible for us to create a system that would function? We do not have to reach the entirely flawless zenith of humanity, so to speak, but we can do this as we currently are. We are discussing mental health and the influence that may have and then the influence of the person looking at that distressed person. It is...