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
Lynn Ruane (Independent)
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I am not talking about that. I am talking about someone who chooses that, under a model and where it is legal and they are in the hospice and will die very soon. Families are being called in. We know the person is going to die, whatever the number of weeks put on it. We have a ballpark figure. The person says that under this model, they would like to access assisted dying because they do not want to wait a few weeks or the few months they have been given. Is Dr. Doré saying he envisions those people, with whom a relationship has been built over the years through palliative care or with the hospice, being moved somewhere else to avail of it?