Dr. Frank Beck Lassen:

I might be able to answer the question so I thank the Deputy for that. The circumstances of the debate on assisted dying in Denmark are somewhat different from the ones presented in Ireland and other nations in the sense that the public debate has not progressed that much. No parliamentary committees are debating this as yet. The engagement made on behalf of the National Council of Ethics was a preliminary one. It is almost obvious that including more jurisdictions in the survey that the national council did would have been preferable, but there was a time issue for us based on parliamentary politics in Denmark. Local circumstances made this more of a quick process. Certainly, it would have been preferable to include some of the jurisdictions that have introduced this, which are the ones the committee is debating, including Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Austria, in our next round of discussions.