Dr. Sinead Donnelly:

I am not a politician or a legislator but in my view, when you legislate, you cannot legislate for a small number of people. You are legislating for the entire population. You have to think what are the possibilities and vulnerabilities regarding the interpretation of the legislation in the upcoming and following years. Our role in palliative care is to address, as best we can, all the distress that people express. Some of it is labelled as existential distress. My belief is that having euthanasia available is not-----