Dr. Aideen Hartney:

With respect, I do not think we are in a position to offer a recommendation one way or the other. On what I was saying in relation to whether it should be on grounds of disability or not, society should not create conditions where the disabilityper sebecomes the reason a person might wish to avail of assisted dying. What we are saying is that people with disabilities are rights holders along with everybody else, so if legislation applies to Irish society, it should apply to all groups equally. The challenge is to ensure that the reasons or the grounds on which someone might avail of assisted dying are not because they have a disability or because they exceed a certain age, but because of certain other prescribed conditions. That is where we would be on that.