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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I wish to ask that question to Dr. Molloy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: If you did not want to do it, you could have a conscientious objection to that. You could do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: The vast majority of people would never in any circumstances want to avail of assisted dying, even if they meet the criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Yes. That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I wish to put on the record that where voluntary assisted dying is legislated for, the vast majority of people who will avail of it will go through palliative care. That is a fact. They should be complementary in some ways. Somebody who is in a palliative care setting or does not choose to go through palliative care should have the choice of voluntary assisted dying. That is important....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is their prerogative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: All of us have learned a lot of very valuable information about this issue. We have seen other jurisdictions, where they have had different experiences and different parameters for those who can avail of assisted dying. One size does not fit all. Other countries are a bit more liberal with regard to those who can avail of assisted dying. Would that fit in Ireland? I do not think so. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: If, as I hope, voluntary assisted dying is legislated for, the first port of call for those who would raise the issue are GPs. We have seen that the issue has been raised with GPs in different countries where voluntary assisted dying has been legislated for. GPs are on the front line, as such, in more ways than one. GPs probably know their patients more than anybody else in a medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: The confliction is that at the moment the voluntary system is not legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: In previous legislation around the termination of pregnancy we have seen that this can actually be done. Legislation can be put in place around conscientious objections and so on where GPs or other medical professionals do not want to partake. That can be done and there is precedence in this country. I will come back in during the next part with a few more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My first questions are for the Irish College of General Practitioners. Do the representatives accept there are circumstances where modern medicine cannot ameliorate somebody's end-of-life circumstances? A small proportion of people will die very difficult deaths. In those circumstances, they should have a choice and a right to have a say in how they will die, although, obviously, that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, that can be very difficult at the end of a person’s life. Professor Chochinov sounds like a very interesting man. Is he, in principle, against assisted dying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: In Canada, it was flagged that the legislation was not robust from the beginning. If the legislation is not very strong and robust it can be challenged on every front. This is what has happened in Canada. It is up to us, as legislators, when we legislate for assisted dying that the legislation is as robust as possible to safeguard everybody, not only the person who will want to avail of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is subjective, obviously. We have discussed the subjectivity of those in this situation. I understand where Professor Chochinov is coming from. Does he still in principle not support somebody availing of assisted dying even the most restrictive circumstances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Extremely briefly.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My thoughts, solidarity and support are with the families of the children who were terribly blighted and injured on Thursday. Those brave people who intervened, the ordinary decent Dubliners, whether from Dublin or from around the world, are the heroes, as are the emergency responders. There is an element who for a long time have been fomenting hatred and poison and who hijacked the events...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I wish to raise an issue I have raised numerous times over the past two years and one I think my colleagues in Dublin Mid-West have also raised. It is the lack of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West, which is the area I am from. This is particularly acute in Newcastle, Lucan and Clondalkin. As the Minister of State can imagine, public health nurses are vitally important for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is extremely disappointing, to say the least. It does not really say anything at all. I do not know what to say to that. All I can say is that the recruitment freeze is obviously compounding the issue. The Minister of State might be able to answer the following question. Is the recruitment freeze having an impact on the recruitment of public health nurses, especially in the CHO 7...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I welcome all the witnesses. This is a very interesting discussion. We obviously have a number of witnesses with neutral positions, which is a good thing. Has there been a change in the previous position of the INMO and the Irish College of General Practitioners on assisted dying? Has it always taken a neutral stance or has its position changed over time?