Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank all our guests who are with us. People have spoken about introducing a model that is extremely conservative and with robust safeguards. We all detest the saying about the slippery slope, but the fear is that no matter what we introduce today, those provisions will be broadened at some stage in future. If we look at where assisted dying has been introduced, this would lead us to believe that this fear is legitimate. Do the witnesses have an example of any jurisdiction where an extremely restrictive model was introduced and it is still the same a decade later? I refer to there having been no broadening of what was available after one decade of operation. I ask the witnesses to address this query.

The other point made was that the Irish Doctors Supporting Medical Assistance in Dying group represents a membership of about 100. Is it free for any medical practitioner to join the organisation? I presume its members are also members of the RCPI.