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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: I refer to Mr. Kelly’s submission. I will not be asking him to comment on the paragraph I intend to quote from, but I would like Dr. Mills’s and Professor Huxtable’s response to it. The paragraph states: It would appear that for the purpose of protecting vulnerable persons, and ensuring [competency] and capacity are duly regarded, assisted dying may not be available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: I found it not provocatively provocative. However, it is provocative in terms of raising the issues for the committee, certainly for me as a member of it, and differentiating between competence and capacity when it came to physical and psychiatric.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: What does "irremediable" mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: Is that a distinction? Mr. Kelly seems to be drawing a distinction and saying that in the case of psychiatric and mental illness, there is a potential for irremediability that does not exist with physical. No, he is not saying that.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Law Cases (5 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any progress in establishing a family maintenance collection agency to follow up on those who do not keep their commitments to pay maintenance as legally required. [32942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the cost and staffing that would be associated with expanding clinical psychology to heart failure patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32884/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of establishing and maintaining a national registry system of heart failure patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the costs of ensuring adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all heart failure patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32886/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the Land Development Agency is providing new homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33186/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33187/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (6 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to extend parental leave to parents of teenagers during their children’s teenage years due to the importance of their development during this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33239/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: As usual, there will not be enough time. It is fascinating. I thank our three contributors. I will start where Professor Madden finished. That is something I will have to take away. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, and paragraph 3 of Professor Madden's statement reads: "As clinicians, doctors have no unique competence in the resolution of ethical issues -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: I do not mean to pin Professor Jones into a corner, but from his own life experience - forget everything else - does he think there are absolutely no circumstances in which an intervention along those lines is appropriate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: On the advanced declarations, I am very interested in the three contributions here, and they have been very valuable again with regard to taking them away. The capacity piece is something we are going to have to go into a little bit more. The waiving of consent is, again, a tricky area. I will go back to Professor Jones. He says that if the numbers go up, the categories expand and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: What numbers have gone up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: From 1,000 to 10,000 when?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: Could Professor Jones expand on "categories"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: That would be helpful, I thank Professor Jones. I find it hard, as a human being. I am not pressing Professor Jones, as I accept his bona fides. However, I find it hard to encounter someone who has never seen a situation where they have not been moved to think that there has to be a better way than this, because this is a terrible existence for a human being, whether it is in terms of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: I will ask a few questions and I will leave it to the three witnesses to answer. One of the witnesses referred to those who might feel pressured to use assisted dying as an option. Can Professor Donnelly or Professor Madden give an example of what that pressure might look like and where it might come from? Have we any anecdotal or hard evidence in that regard? What does an advance...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: This is not a debate I was going to contribute on. It is not that I do not feel I have anything to say. It is just that I have heard the same speeches being made again and again over the years. I share the frustration of my colleagues in opposition. I am also very proud of the tradition of my own party. I am also conscious that this week we celebrated the life and passing of a great...