Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion

Dr. Regina McQuillan:

I can understand why people would want that. Deputy Gino Kenny is asking for whom should this be available. These are people with certain illnesses or certain categories of people. There are many people who live with lots of life difficulties. I know people are sometimes concerned about conflating people who wish for assisted dying with people who wish to die by suicide for other reasons. A lot of these things have very similar drivers. They are drivers for people who are fearful.