Rónán Mullen (Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Does it not trouble Dr. Trouton or Professor Downie at all that something like 7% of all deaths in some parts of Canada – I believe it is Ottawa, but also Quebec – are MAID? That would be seen as a runaway train by almost everyone in Ireland. It would amount to 2,500 deaths per year in our population. It would be in or around the number of deaths during Covid, and we all know how traumatic that was. Does it not trouble the witnesses that there was a 35% jump in 2022 in the number of people accessing MAID? Do they not believe that some people are losing the will to live?