Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying
Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion
Dr. Andrea Mulligan:
It would be useful for the committee to consider different jurisdictions.
The methodology for doing that is complicated. If you asked someone who is administering this in a particular regime or jurisdiction, he or she might say, "This is the law, it is great and there are no problems", but I know there is a lot of scholarship about abuses and problems in different jurisdictions. The committee needs to look at how people do it in different places, but in a critical way. You want to be finding out if it is not working. You would want to look at that.
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