Ms Sharon Finegan:

If I may, as the chair has said, there are six questions that refer to "health" as opposed to "life". Part of the reason there were so many questions is there was a very robust discussion with the citizens as to drawing those distinctions between physical health and mental health and whether to use the qualifying word "serious". The committee may ask, if in the heel of the reel the assembly voted by a majority for all of those, why we included all of them. However, we wanted to ensure that we were not disenfranchising some members who may have felt there was a distinction to be drawn between serious risk and not serious risk or between physical health and mental health. We added the extra question to the end of the ballot paper asking explicitly if there should be a difference between physical health and mental health because so many members expressed the view that they wanted to be able to express that on the ballot paper to make it clear that they did not see that distinction. It was quite a detailed way of exploring that issue but it was done in a way so as not to disenfranchise those who did see those distinctions.