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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Okay. That is it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I welcome the witnesses. My first question is for Professor Binchy. Does he think the taking of one's life is a sin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Does he not think that if someone is in that position-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Does Professor Binchy acknowledge that over the past 30 years, there have been huge societal changes in Ireland, including changes in regard to divorce, marriage equality and women's right to choose? They have all been progressive changes. Things have changed dramatically in Ireland. We are trying to wrestle with the question of people's autonomy and choice regarding their own life. Why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is a completely different set of circumstances. Professor Binchy is conflating issues that are not relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I would say that they need intervention and so forth. It is disingenuous to conflate the two issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: We are talking about two different issues. We are talking about societal issues and an issue where somebody is coming to the end of life and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: -----they should have a choice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: There is a major difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I will tell Professor Binchy what I would do. If a person came to me saying that their marriage had broken down and all that kind of crisis, I would tell them that if they were threatening to take their own life, they should not do it. I would tell they could seek help and all that. I will go to absolute circumstances to make that not happen. If somebody – this has happened...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I had a very recent experience of a close friend who said they do not want to go through a certain period of their life. What does I say to that person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is not logical at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Those are two different circumstances. Conflating the issues is disingenuous and dangerous. Let us move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I am accepting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: No. I am asking the questions here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I am asking the questions here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: No. Professor Binchy is not moving from his-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: The law will change. I can guarantee that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Over the weekend, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use completed its work after six months. The clear message from the citizens' assembly is to end the status quo. As I said to the Taoiseach two weeks ago, we have had six decades of this that have failed. People have been criminalised. They have been brought through the criminal justice system and through the prison system. It just has...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Decriminalisation.