Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London

1:30 pm

Dr. Ruth Fletcher:

One would guide their adjudication of it with something like a public policy document. One would not leave it entirely to the professionals. One has the option of not leaving it entirely either to professional practice or professional guidelines. The link between those two can be made more explicit by Department of Health guidance. In that sense it would be State public policy rather than professional guidance.