Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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I will ask one final question. We hear a lot of talk about opinion polls and what they say on one issue or another. I am thinking these days, for example, about opinion polls on immigration. The view is sometimes taken that if certain attitudes come up in opinion polls, this can point to the need for more public information. If opinion polls were to show majority support for a change in the law when asked a simple, or perhaps simplistic, question in this regard, would it be the view of the witnesses, and I am asking them all this, that more knowledge about what palliative care can achieve and more knowledge of the potential side effects on other vulnerable people of changing the law would, it is hoped, lead to a change in attitudes and that polling results might, in the fullness of time, reflect this?