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

Reverend Steven Foster:

I do not have much to say. The Methodist Church has not been against all of the legislative changes mentioned earlier. We consider each area of public life and I hope grapple with it well because it is all about people. As I seek to be active in County Galway, where I am, my concern is to acknowledge that religion as we have known it has not necessarily been a genuine expression of a Jesus movement. The Methodist Church is seeking to grapple well with any of these topics with variation in different areas.