Professor William Binchy:

The best way of dealing with that type of argument is to have a situation that you do not facilitate some degree of assisted dying. The court has worked on the basis that if there is some degree of assisted dying, it can engage with articles based on discrimination. Therefore, the best way, from Ireland's point of view, of not being in a situation that the European Court of Human Rights would produce a decision which would require Ireland to do something it did not want is not to introduce this law. The very introduction of this law allows the court to heed arguments, and it has done so in a number of other contexts, based on discrimination in this area.