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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: If that percentage of people were in hospice care, they will potentially die in a hospice and that is the reason they are there, and if they chose under a legalised model that they want assisted dying, and, say, their proximity to death is fairly close and they want to bring that forward, is Dr. Doré saying under a legalised model that hospice would say it would not facilitate that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Even though the person is one, two, three, or six weeks away from death would they be moved? It does not feel like patient-centred care then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Where would the patient go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am not talking about that. I am talking about someone who chooses that, under a model and where it is legal and they are in the hospice and will die very soon. Families are being called in. We know the person is going to die, whatever the number of weeks put on it. We have a ballpark figure. The person says that under this model, they would like to access assisted dying because they do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I am thinking of the patients Dr. McQuillan spoke about who she sat with and who refused medication. That is already a right, in that people can withdraw their desire to have any sort of treatment or to eat or drink. Senator Mullen spoke about the moral pressure when things change. However, the end result there is that an intervention that goes against all the other principles people put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why does the idea of someone withdrawing medical care not have the same impact as assisted dying? You could say the same because we allow for the right to refuse medication legally. Why has that not had a knock on effect on everybody who might think they will do that when they see that people want to avail of assisted dying? The public support is there with people saying they want to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Then you would not give people morphine. It would not be medicalised at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: That is not nature taking its course. We intervene to prolong deaths. That is not nature taking its course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not agree with nature taking its course because if one goes back to the invention of palliative care, medicalising death has already happened in how we prolong life at a particular stage or give medication. Allowing something to take its natural course does not include morphine or painkillers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why does it? That is also a human invention. How is that the natural course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Why is the capacity of one's mind to choose to die not part of the natural course? If we can say that all these instances and external things form part of nature, then some people's minds and their capacity to choose something is also within that field of nature.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not, actually.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Their natural course from what point in life? Going back to the natural course of what? They are slowly moving closer and closer to death. Maybe they are becoming more incapacitated. What does Dr. Doré mean about returning to their natural-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is because the person asked, it is not the reason for seeking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Of course, but what I am saying is that people are not given assisted suicide based on the fact that they arrive and say they are a burden.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Of course.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, after line 34, to insert the following: “Report on Universal Basic Income for care-leavers 21.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on options for introducing a Universal Basic Income scheme for...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I raised this issue in the committee. It would be on the Minister's radar. I thought there might be some crossover or intersection where a person is 18 and leaving care. Some people, when they leave care at 18, might not necessarily avail of one of the aftercare housing schemes and so on. Some may not come under the umbrella of what falls under the Minister's Department. I may be wrong...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, after line 34, to insert the following: “Report on income adequacy of lone parent families 21.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the Joint Committee on Social Protection a report on the income inadequacy of lone parent households, including an analysis of...