David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If I just come back to the opening statement, I will ask the question that may point to the reason I asked the first question. Dr. Collins spoke about clear boundaries coming from the RedC Research and Marketing report requested by the ICGP, which set out a number of clear boundaries for those GPs in favour of assisted dying. One of these is a medically verified terminal illness, possibly with the prospect of a difficult death. How difficult would it be to determine within legislation what is terminal in those circumstances? I imagine there are different layers of that. There are people who could be weeks, months, or years away from death. How can it be determined medically, in advance of someone's death, how difficult that death will be? That is what I am saying. Is that a very difficult space from which to legislate?