Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Does Professor Binchy acknowledge that over the past 30 years, there have been huge societal changes in Ireland, including changes in regard to divorce, marriage equality and women's right to choose? They have all been progressive changes. Things have changed dramatically in Ireland. We are trying to wrestle with the question of people's autonomy and choice regarding their own life. Why would Professor Binchy be against that? Why would he object, in a situation where a person is terminally ill and coming to the end of life, to that person wanting to have a say in how he or she dies? I am not focusing only on Professor Binchy. I am asking why anybody would tell such a person he or she must go through a pretty torturous death for all sorts of reasons. Why should somebody have a veto over that person's choice?