Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion

Dr. Hannah Linane:

The principle of autonomy keeps coming up. It is such an important principle and is something in healthcare that we try to prioritise for all people. I suppose there is always a balance of other principles, however. We would have a great concern about the safety of the people we look after, which has been discussed already – the vulnerable people. We do not feel that there would be safeguards that would protect those vulnerable people.