Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying
Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion
Mr. Don Wycherly:
The right to a good life and a good death is the marker of our humanity. This means access to healthcare options. We know that many medics make decisions not to offer treatment routes to people with impairments. The call for more counsellors, social workers and clinicians, including cohorts of professionals with impairments, needs to be resourced and included in the context of this discussion.
To live a disabled life is important and having reassurance from the State's apparatus is equally so. Access to those rights is a fundamental human right. The end.