Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion

Dr. Andrea Mulligan:

As well, yes. Off the top of my head, I do not know of anywhere that simply allows individuals to avail of assisted suicide in the absence of either pain or a terminal illness. They have to have one of those two. I do not know of a jurisdiction that just gives a general right to everybody to assisted dying.

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