Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask Professor Walsh about his experience abroad and how society is changing as regards the sensitive matters of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Within five or ten years, there will be a serious debate on this topic. Given his experience abroad, how does he believe that conversation will develop in society? We can hide from it for as long as we want, but it must be faced, as it has been in other countries. We know how the majority of society feels about the subject, but that will change within five to ten years. Some of the reaction to individual cases has shifted radically in a short time. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in some states in the US and Europe.