Ms Elma Walsh:

In the ten years since Donal passed away, we have gone to schools two to three times per week throughout Ireland, North and South. The Department of Education has books about Donal in schools at both secondary and primary levels, both in the North and South of Ireland. Therefore, the Department is promoting Donal's LiveLife message and the Department of Health is eroding it. The same Department of Health invested in Donal. It invested in nine months of chemotherapy and a partially prosthetic leg for him. It invested in a lung operation and four more series of chemotherapy for him and in his palliative care unit. What I am saying is that we are diminishing the value of life if we go ahead with this. On the one hand the Department of Education is promoting Donal and on the other hand the Department of Health is going to go ahead with what is proposed in this Bill, if it is passed. The latter Department is diminishing the value of life by introducing this Bill.