Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is the issue. Dr. Martin says that the human rights element is admirable and I agree with him. How would he go about achieving what we want in respect of human rights and equipping the service user, or whatever one wants to call the person, to advocate for themselves? The objective of this legislation is to try to give people as much freedom as possible and as much scope as possible to decide on their own health treatment. The "as possible" element is very important. Given that Dr. Martin acknowledges that the human rights sentiment here is admirable, how would he then go about helping or advising us in order to enshrine people's human rights within legislation? Clearly, a significant number of people have appeared before this committee who would not agree with his analysis. I am interested to hear what measures Dr. Martin would propose. He went through the Bill forensically, identified the areas he was not happy about and gave a very strong and passionate critique of the Bill, but I am asking him now for actual solutions and proposals to counter the negatives that he has pointed out.