Mr. Michael O'Neill:

Physician-assisted arose when we made our submissions on the previous Bill. The real context there was that the intention was that a clinician and doctor would be involved in assisting somebody. Partly to do with that, the commission recommended that secondary legislation be put in place to identify the kinds of drugs that might be used, how they would be administered, etc. The idea was, in the context of that earlier Bill, that there would be greater clarity about how the process would operate.