Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That legislation is thorough and progressive. It is revolutionary in some ways in relation to healthcare. Professor Madden touched on it. She put it eloquently when she spoke of people having control of their medical treatment. That gives clarity in that people could find themselves in a situation where they could refuse a medical intervention and so forth. That gives a sense of control. Why would society not allow a person who has capacity, has control over the decision and who has a limited time on this earth due to an illness to have control over a certain period of life? That is a question we are trying to figure out an answer to. I hope that in those circumstances, the person would have a choice. Why allow people to starve themselves to death? Why allow people to have awful deaths? That is not a civilised society. People should have a legal and medical right to say they want to choose how they die. That is a fundamental right.

Will Professor Madden answer the same question on the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act?