Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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The corollary of that is that in the identification, diagnosis, treatment and availability of it, someone is obliged to refuse that if they do not want to face suffering or do not want to face a future in which otherwise they may have had an accelerated death without all of these treatments. I am not sure we can draw a definitive conclusion from it. I take the point on the scripts where is it voluntary and one takes it oneself for one's assisted dying, versus it being done by a doctor. In that context, we need to consider the mental health empowerment that comes about from being able to exercise this choice. That might limit what we make available. Perhaps, as a committee, we could say that this is a valid consideration of the numbers here. That might put us in the sphere of saying that it should only be available when someone is able to take it himself or herself rather than being medically obliged or put on the person.