Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion

Photo of Pa DalyPa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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The humanist association's sister organisation in England stated it would support assisted dying for people suffering from a terminal, incurable or progressive condition. Has Mr. Ward any view on the definition of a terminal illness? Take, for example, people who have a form of cancer that would mean, with treatment, it would take ten years to die. Would such people qualify in those circumstances?