Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the professor for his illuminating and unambiguous statement. It is helpful to us for a witness to be so clear on his views on the issue. One problem we have in Ireland sometimes is that we are imprecise in our use of language. Sometimes this issue is referred to as the right to die. Last week, a professor from London acknowledged to the committee there is no legal right to die, whether deriving from either European or Irish law. The suggestion is there is a right to die with dignity. Is Professor O'Neill saying - and from my experience of death, I believe it to be the case - that people in Ireland do die with dignity?