Ms Karen Hall:

As anybody who works with disabled people and has lived experience of disability knows, those situations can be encountered. I am thinking of a particular case where someone had expressed that desire and had the capacity to decide. However, the level of support given to that person on an individual basis had not been enough. With an increase in support, including medical support, independent living and other services, that person changed perspective over time.

This is a question of why we would change the law for a small number of people when there is a risk of abuse for a larger number.