Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion

Dr. Greg Mewett:

I wish to add something about Dr. Nitschke’s comments. Dr. Nitschke is working in the Swiss space. If that is a particular model that Ireland is looking at, that would surprise me. The Switzerland situation is an outlier, given that VAD – or assisted dying or whatever you would like to call it – is a civil issue, not a medical one. That may be Dr. Nitschke’s preference but in fact that model is not adopted anywhere else in the world. What actually happened in Switzerland-----

We are out of time, Dr. Mewett. I call Senator Mullen.

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