Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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Dr. O'Shea recommends there should be a prognosis of less than six months to live.

It is also proposed that the determination of that prognosis would be a matter for two GPs and there would not be a requirement for specialist advice. In the context of capacity to consent and a determination of there being less than six months to live, is this not something complex and, in effect, incapable of being measured within the regulatory regime Dr. O'Shea's organisation is prescribing whereby the say of only two GPs is required? Furthermore, if people refuse standard treatment and that potentially puts them in the category of having less than six months to live, would they then qualify under the proposed regime?