Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion

Photo of Emer HigginsEmer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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It would be great as a follow-up if Dr. Kelleher were able to provide that level of detail as to how many members were involved and engaged. That would be useful for us to know. It sounds as if an awful lot of work went into it and it was very thorough. I thank Dr. Kelleher for that explanation.

I will move to the representatives of the National Suicide Research Foundation. Their submission outlined a number of concerns around, in particular, safeguarding.

It falls short of saying that they are against assisted dying. That is fair enough if they do not want to make any judgment call on that, but if they are in a position to say whether they are for or against this in principle, now is their opportunity to do so.