Dr. Diarmuid Quinlan:

I thank the Senator for raising the issue of palliative care. We feel it is very important that access to high-quality palliative care be available to all patients in an equitable fashion right across the country. We need to support access to palliative care in general practice and specialist hospital care teams. We are on the same page there.

There is no legislation around assisted dying. We cannot make any assumptions as to where that might be delivered if legislation were written.