Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion

Professor William Binchy:

I am sorry; I am too verbose. I apologise but I would just simply say that in those circumstances, the wider concerns I mentioned earlier about what actually happens when we introduce a law like this are relevant. We find that vulnerable people are actually ending their lives or, worse still, are having their lives ended.