Ms Sin?ad Gibney:

I believe so. We can look to other jurisdictions to see how this issue has been dealt with. When we were dealing with this at commission level, we engaged in robust deliberations. As chief commissioner, I was a little surprised at how vociferous the issue was around the vulnerability of people with disabilities in their engagement with medical and social services, and essentially concerns around the value of life. As somebody who did not have a disability, I had probably not understood that. That goes both for the disabled community and older people. That is why it has to be quite clear, as a safeguard, that this is not a reason alone to create a pathway to end of life, as Mr. O'Neill has said. It has to be done in the context of the full reasons for somebody considering this.