Mr. Tom Curran:

What I would say to them is that it is about choice. If someone does not want that choice, that is find but if somebody else does, do not prevent them from having that choice. The unfortunate thing is that while we talk about it here and during the ten years since the court case and Marie's death, this thing is going on. We cannot push our heads under the sand. Silvan Luley from Dignitas was here and mentioned the number of people who have travelled from Ireland that Dignitas have dealt with. Dignitas is only one clinic. There are lots of people travelling from Ireland but there are also a lot of people taking this issue into their own hands. An example, and I suppose proof of that, is the Canadian man who was recently arrested for sending out product which was a perfectly legal product but the purpose of the product was end-of-life. When he was arrested they found his distribution list. He was doing it out of the goodness of his heart because this was not available to people in places such as Ireland. When they found his distribution list, there was a number of elderly people from Ireland who had bought from him.

Therefore, people are taking this into their own hands while the Government sits back and does nothing about it. It is ten years since Marie died. Is it not time to get off something?