Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion

Dr. Philip Haig Nitschke:

It would be possible. I think everyone accepts the fact that pentobarbital, or Nembutal, is the premier premium drug to use. It is controlled in a sense by the medical profession so it can and effectively gives the control of that process to the profession. It brings up a problem though because-----