Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is hard to understand. We are told that there are oceans of doctors who are willing to deliver this service. However, we are then told that we have to force certain doctors to make arrangements for it. It is either one or the other. If there are adequate numbers who are happy to provide the service we do not actually need to go down this particular route. As I said earlier, the limits of one individual's rights are where they infringe on another individual's rights. Most people would understand that it is an infringement of a person's rights to force him or her to be involved in a process that leads to the end of another human being's life. This is something that thousands of doctors are crying out for, and I ask the Minister to accept the amendment.

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