Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is my question. It says in Dr. Ní Bhriain's opening statement that there is a belief that there is a potential impact of assisted dying, but that research is not out there. Obviously, other jurisdictions have had assisted dying for a long time, and you would imagine they would have potentially accumulated some sorts of insights and research on whether there is a correlation between intergenerational trauma or intergenerational harm and assisted dying, but that is not there. I am concerned about the conflation of those two things because I am acutely aware of the impact of intergenerational trauma as regards suicide, the ripple effect of suicide within communities and households and the impact of suicide ideation being compounded by somebody else's suicide within a community. I think they are different things, and I would be concerned about making them out to be the same in this conversation. I am not saying there is no intergenerational impact, but another part of Dr. Ní Bhriain's opening statement says, "The importance of will and preference is now enshrined in law", that is, that people have a right to refuse sustaining treatment as if that is potentially the alternative to assisted dying, or that if assisted dying is not implemented, we have this. Is Dr. Ní Bhriain as concerned about the potential intergenerational impact of this process?