Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying
Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion
Mr. Silvan Luley:
The statistics are published on the website and I will quickly look it up. Since 2003, there have been 12 Irish residents. If the Deputy goes to our website, dignitas.ch, in the section "Knowledge", there is a subsection called "Statistics". There figures can be found about membership, assisted deaths in the past 25 years of Dignitas's operation and also data provided by the Swiss office of statistics in regard to diagnoses of people who make use of assisted dying here in Switzerland, as well as special chart comparing do-it-yourself suicides, life expectancy, population and assisted suicides.