Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion

Dr. Andrea Mulligan:

It would be useful for the committee to consider different jurisdictions.

The methodology for doing that is complicated. If you asked someone who is administering this in a particular regime or jurisdiction, he or she might say, "This is the law, it is great and there are no problems", but I know there is a lot of scholarship about abuses and problems in different jurisdictions. The committee needs to look at how people do it in different places, but in a critical way. You want to be finding out if it is not working. You would want to look at that.