Ms Sin?ad Gibney:

To pick up on the reasonable medical judgment language, we got this from the Oregon legislation. To qualify under the legislation there, "the person must have a terminal illness that based on reasonable medical judgment will produce death within six months". Terminal disease in this case is defined as "an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months". It is in the context of that model that this language applies and not to the broader question of life expectancy. I hope the Deputy sees what I mean. The medical ethics unit in the Department of Health will be able to provide much more detail on this area and we can gladly follow up as well with any more analysis we have. We got this language, however, from within the model. This is the language that works in other jurisdictions.