Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I will tell Professor Binchy what I would do. If a person came to me saying that their marriage had broken down and all that kind of crisis, I would tell them that if they were threatening to take their own life, they should not do it. I would tell they could seek help and all that. I will go to absolute circumstances to make that not happen. If somebody – this has happened recently – who is terminally ill and coming to the end of their life said that they wanted me to change the law on assisted dying, what would Professor Binchy want me to say to them? Should I say “No” because people have an antiquated view that somebody should have to suffer? That is rubbish and he knows that it is rubbish.