Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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Going back to Mr. Riley, I had a conversation recently with someone involved in life assurance who spoke about a difficulty in getting doctors and consultants to say there is a limited period of life left, for example, that a person has six months to live. Does he think there will be difficulties in this regard or that it will easy for consultants to write, for instance, that a person will survive for six months without qualifying that in some way? Will this issue affect the legislation? There may be situations where a doctor says he or she thinks a person will live for less than six months without any treatment but that if an oral scheme of palliative care is administrated, the person will live for longer. How would such people fall under the legislation?