Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Feargal Twomey:

If someone is dying and distressed, we are able to use medications to help relieve them of their distress. Perhaps it is an analgesic to help control pain, an anxiolytic or a sedative medicine to manage breathlessness, fear or anxiety, or another type of medicine to manage distress or delirium at the end of life. We can manage that.