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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Can the witnesses give an example of what these medicinal products would be to the average person who goes into a pharmacy to collect them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: How would medicinal products be classified? These are drugs that do not need to be prescribed by a doctor but can be obtained in a pharmacy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: What example would that be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Contraception?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Would, say, methadone come under that guise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That could be applied to all drugs, could it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Would that even apply to, say, antidepressants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: In theory, a pharmacist could give somebody anti-depressants without a prescription. Is this possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: If that person goes to a pharmacy and says he or she has finished his or her prescription and cannot see his or her GP, could the pharmacist provide a week's supply of that drug?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My first question is for the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. Dr. McHale said in her opening statement that there is a minority of patients who are not receiving the optimal level of specialist care. I invite her to elaborate on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: With all due respect to the witnesses, I think it is unhelpful to conflate the issue of assisted dying with the issue of suicide. I have stated this from the very start. I do not think it is helpful to the debate. Are there any circumstances where the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland could see where somebody is coming to the end of their life, they have a terminal diagnosis, and they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Surely there is a difference between somebody who is coming to the end of their life. Of course, somebody could be extremely traumatised and depressed about their diagnosis but surely there has to be a difference between their physical being and their mental being. Surely in that situation, where somebody is coming to the end of their life, they should have a say in how they actually die.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is wrong, obviously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I completely get that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Is it the individual? Is it society? It is the collective. At that particular point, the person surely has the right to say, "I do not want to go through that certain period of my life."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I understand that. Today is the anniversary of Vicky Phelan's death. I spoke to Vicky many times before she passed away. She always said, "I am not suicidal, I do not want to die, but I do not want to die in a situation that is out of my control". There are other people in that situation. It is conflating the issue with suicide and somebody with a terminal diagnosis who may want this....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: It will probably be no surprise that I support assisted dying. Our committee is here to grapple with and assess whether we can legislate for that over the coming period. It is a difficult and fundamental question to ask society and the committee. We all agree with that. There are obviously deficiencies in our health system in respect of inequalities and palliative care. It is to be hoped...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I disagree with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That would be psychosocial support. Would it be an absence of that as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I completely get that but even if those supports were in place and somebody said they did not want to go through certain periods of their life because of the diagnosis, surely in that case they have that right to say, "I want to end my life and I want to end it with the permission of the State, with the permission of the doctor, and to have my say." Even if those things were all in place,...