Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Sorry, maybe I should know this but this relates to campaigners who are having to go to, say, the highest court in the UK or maybe even Europe, the European Court of Human Rights. Were we to introduce a restrictive model of assisted dying in Ireland and were preventing other people from being able to avail of that model, would we be liable or open to a challenge being made to the European Court of Human Rights to say we were being somewhat discriminatory to people we are excluding from availing of assisted dying?