Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying
Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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I will follow on from that. Is there any danger that, if we start considering autonomy in terms of the range of choices people can make, we would end up with discrimination based on socioeconomic circumstances? How do we make sure that does not arise if we are assessing autonomy?