Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion

Dr. Cameron McLaren:

We continue to have diseases without prognoses but which cause severe suffering. We wish we had the ability to grant them their wish to engage in voluntary assisted dying but we have to talk to them and say that despite their severe suffering, there is no recourse.