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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline if he is satisfied with the public consultation aspect of active travel projects supported by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make whatever arrangements are necessary to ensure that full Part 8 planning requirements are followed with regard to active travel schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any measures to leverage the billions in savings accounts held by Irish people into investment opportunities in areas such as State affordable housing vehicles or other investment vehicles directed towards the public good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42889/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: The term "intergenerational trauma", which is a new term to me, is being used increasingly by non-governmental organisations and stakeholders to describe the impact, particularly on young people, of life in severely challenged and disadvantaged parts of the country. Given the ongoing and relatively positive impact of the north-east inner city initiative established under the previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses. I thank Dr. McKeown O'Donovan for taking up the doctoral research piece on this topic. It is not something everybody would be aiming for. Just as a matter of interest, what university department did that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Someone may have asked Dr. McKeown O’Donovan this already, and it is on the record, so it is fine. She said the term “assisted dying” refers to “the active assistance to die given to someone who is already dying, and the dying person is the one who directly self-administers the life ending-substance”. The obvious question, as in the Marie Fleming case, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: So that would not be allowed under-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Did Dr. McKeown O'Donovan cover this here already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: If a person did not have the capacity or ability to self-administer, Dr. McKeown O’Donovan is saying the existing position in Irish law is that if a person assisted, it is criminal, and that would remain a criminal offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I will be switching back and forth. I refer to the theological perspective, which we had some of last week as well. Again, I thank the witnesses for their contributions. Dr. Finegan is coming from a religious or theological framework.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I have no issue with that. I am completely neutral on it but I wish to interrogate it. I studied theology myself. I will repeat this and it is on the record. I think there is an input because people will potentially be making a decision in a referendum, if it came to that. They may be believers in various forms of religion and will look to their religious leaders for advice, input or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: They are important points to stress and to emphasise here. There is also in philosophy and theology a just war theory, where killing is, in very simple terms, morally permissible because of what you are fighting against. One of the things that sets us apart from the animal kingdom as human beings is our ability to think rationally and our freedom of thought, freedom of expression and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: You would never do what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: This is an important point. I know you are talking about the common good. If I pleaded with you and said I had considered this, and said my life is completely meaningless and has lost its value for me, that I am in indescribable pain and have endured it for quite a long time, and it is not my inability to endure pain that is leading me to this decision; it is just the meaninglessness of it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: What if you could not relieve me of pain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: What if I am telling you my life is now simply devoid of quality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Dr. McKeown O'Donovan for what she said regarding the slippery slope argument because that is one of the things we have to consider as well. She said that using the slippery slope argument is "neither always reasonable, straightforward, nor a good basis for policy formation". It is important to note that. Coming to Dr. Finnegan, and these are the things we grapple with, I refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the secretariat for organising these speakers and the witnesses for attending. I hope I am considered reasonably objective. There is a clash of styles here. The witnesses will not have viewed our reactions to the past six or eight meetings we have had over a number of months. I find Dr. Komrad hard to take seriously as a witness. I hope he is not offended by that but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: That would be useful. The language he uses is about zealots, extreme providers and doctors shopping patients. I find it shocking because it is not what I associate with this area and is not the kind of evidence we have been listening to or have heard from many-----