Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

This has been happening all over the world, in the USA, the UK and so on. There is no reason the service could not have been extended to the whole country in 2000. We are suffering the effects of this now. I know the Tánaiste argues that she is not an advocate of anything other than keeping people alive. If the Galway Clinic route is the way to go, then it should be let do it. I spoke to the clinic and was told it could do it. We keep getting the same answer as regards the intricacies. There is no intricacy here except the conundrum as regards how people in the west and south cannot have this service which is in the other half of the country. I just cannot understand it. It does not make sense. Why did those people die?

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