Annie Hoey (Labour)
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I thank the witnesses for their contributions. We went through this before when we talked about a dignified death. I do not know that we even provide now for a dignified death for every person in Ireland.

We touched on this before in the committee, in terms of people dying homeless on the streets or suffering because medicine has not caught up. I asked previously if it is possible to introduce something like this when the other side of it is not yet perfectly right. I will not rehash that question.

There was talk around the Supreme Court - it has not yet ruled on a case that could change this issue or look differently at it. We consistently go back to the Fleming case. I may be asking an impossible question but what would such a case involve? I am trying to think of other areas that have not been tested. Is that too much of a hypothetical question? What has not yet been examined by the Supreme Court which could, therefore, potentially result in a different ruling to Fleming or others? Am I plucking into the air?