Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion

Professor Ben White:

Some of them are religion-based and some are palliative care units. The issue was that some institutions were not allowing people to enter premises to talk about voluntary assisted dying. There is a care navigator service in Australia that can provide information to patients. It is not providing voluntary assisted dying or assisting patients; it is just giving information. Some patients who could not be safely moved out of the facility were not able to get the information in question because the navigators were not allowed in the door.