Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There are other jurisdictions in which individuals have the option to confer health powers in an enduring power of attorney and create separate advance healthcare directives. For example, British Columbia allows an individual to create both a representation agreement conferring health and other decision-making powers and an enduring power of attorney conferring powers to make legal decisions, including provision of consent. Queensland also allows an individual to create both an enduring power of attorney conferring health and decision-making powers and an advance healthcare directive conferring health and decision-making powers. It has, therefore, been done in other jurisdictions.