Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Tom Curran:

We have already proposed one. We have submitted a Bill that I worked on with four barristers. It took nearly two years to put it together. Under a month was spent preparing the bit that dealt with assisted dying and the rest of the time was spent looking at safeguards around the world, improving on some that were there already and adding to them. The majority of that time spent meeting four barristers regularly was based on putting safeguards in to prevent the vulnerable from being abused. We have a model there already that would work perfectly for Ireland.

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