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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Jeanne for the clarification on palliative care. I apologise for my mistake, but I understood that only 1%, or some other very low percentage, of cases involved psychiatry. I would have thought that, if people were serious about preventing suicide, the role of psychiatry would have been more central. I am also surprised that Dr. Jeanne does not see it as a problem that as many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: But it is a rise from 30%, is it not? There is something happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I did not insult anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Yet again you have failed to produce evidence of any precise nature-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: -----except to express a feeling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I said nothing to denigrate anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: People talk in different ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: He was addressing me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Out of courtesy to the witnesses, when something is personalised-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Jeanne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I did not attack anyone’s style or the like.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Not at all. I would also like to welcome the guests and to wish everybody here the best for the forthcoming term. I was struck by an observation by Professor Orla Feely, during her inaugural lecture as president of University College Dublin, UCD, on Monday evening. She pointed out that the ratio of students to staff in Irish universities is, as she put it: "much, much worse" than it was...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Knock yourself out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I know this is a difficult topic but if Professor Boer could give me an answer to my questions in two or three sentences given the limited time, I would be grateful. The first thing that struck me was that looking at the number of deaths taking place in the Netherlands, which is 5.2%, if you were to compare that with the Irish population and if we had the Dutch system, that might put us at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: That is fine, I thank Professor Boer. He also mentioned incidences where euthanasia is carried out under the auspices of the GP, but he also mentioned that there are private companies involved. When that happens, because there is no doctor-patient relationship, who is taking the initiative there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: What type of pressure is driving this increase of figures? Are we talking about pressure on doctors from society? There has been some discussion here of pressure on patients because of an absence of positive reassurance by relatives about them not being a burden. Are these issues presenting as reasons or are they driving the figures or the increases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: It has been suggested that by legalising some kind of euthanasia or assisted suicide regime, it will drive down the number of suicides that would otherwise take place. Has the existence of assisted suicide or euthanasia in Netherlands impacted on the number of suicides in Holland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Have I time for another question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Returning to the question of minors, there has been some discussion of euthanasia of minors, people under 18 years, in Belgium and Holland. What is the story in the Netherlands?