Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
My final question centres on the contribution by Dr. Regina McQuillan last week. She spoke about diluting the resource allocation for palliative care. If one imports the right to assisted suicide into our health care framework, then one potentially dilutes or undermines attempts to achieve the best health care system for everybody. Would Dr. Campbell accept that importing the right to assisted suicide impacts on the capacity to provide other services, including palliative care, for example, because resources are finite? Would that be a concern?
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