John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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I will ask a few questions and I will leave it to the three witnesses to answer. One of the witnesses referred to those who might feel pressured to use assisted dying as an option. Can Professor Donnelly or Professor Madden give an example of what that pressure might look like and where it might come from? Have we any anecdotal or hard evidence in that regard? What does an advance healthcare directive look like? Those are the two questions: first, who might feel pressured and what might that pressure look like; and, second, who might exert that pressure, in the experience of the witnesses?