Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I want to clarify a remark I made at the start. I was not implying that the Senator Seery Kearney was scaremongering. There are those, however, who oppose assisted dying, for all sorts of reasons, who do go into the territory of scaremongering, but I was not saying the Senator was scaremongering. I just wanted to clarify this point. I do not at all doubt the bona fides of the Senator concerning this issue.

I have one question. If we were to legislate for assisted dying and a limited system of those who could avail of assisted dying, what would happen where someone, for example, falls within a time-limiting criterion in respect of a determination of a diagnosis of less than six months to live? If this person has the capacity but physically cannot self-administer the medication to end his or her life, does this change the parameters in the legislation? The general remit of assisted dying is that the person concerned will self-administer the medication. If a person has not got the physical capacity to self-administer the medication, however, then a physician will have to administer the medication to that person. Does this change the context?