Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion

Dr. Kristin Good:

Just to respond to Dr. Donnelly's comment that she engaged with me, she actually engaged with the team. There was a commitment from the policy team to take this extremely seriously. Our top priority is to be providing a service that is safe for people accessing the services, their families and practitioners. I object to that because it is simply not the fact. We are actually working with researchers. Part of the difficulty is that Oregon was not the only service that was up and running and collecting data. Part of the issue that the policy team looked at is what exactly that should look like. I am going to leave it at that.