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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: How is it manifesting itself though? Is Dr. Good in a position to say anything about the breach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: How extensive is the practitioner intolerance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Sorry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: How low is low?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: This is about life and death. I do not think anybody should be laughing. This is about life and death. If one single person is coerced or loses his or her life because the witnesses have not done their job adequately is why we have to scrutinise this. It is not for jokes. This is life and death. This is about vulnerable people. We are all here in good faith trying to scrutinise the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: That is important. I thank Dr. Good for clarifying that. New Zealand is only two years into this but, please, no smart comments about smoking guns. So many jurisdictions in the world are full of smoking guns, as we have heard. It is not a matter of laughter or smart comments, no matter how eminent the politician is at the other side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Sorry to interrupt. I have to put a point of order. What Dr. Nitschke is saying is interesting but did we have a discussion at some stage at the committee about whether we were going to talk about drugs in open session? Does it raise issues about the vulnerability of people who might be watching and so on? I have some recollection of there being concerns about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I am obviously thinking on my feet and I am not in any way trying to obstruct Dr. Nitschke. He is clear about the point he is making and his position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Yes, it might be helpful because an issue arises here concerning vulnerable people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I am open to correction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I thank all of our experts and guests for attending this evening or this morning, depending on where they are. I might start with Dr. Mewett, who is a palliative care physician. Could he give us a quick definition of what palliative care is for him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: That would be one that would be commonly shared across the world. I did some work with the Council of Europe in terms of the provision of palliative care in Europe. I am fascinated by Dr. Mewett because he is a palliative care physician who supports assisted suicide or assisted dying, call it what you will. Certainly, the majority in the profession in Ireland would be very concerned about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I am aware of Dr. Mewett's view and I read a very interesting opinion piece he wrote about the law in Scotland. He spoke from his own experience, and some of what he had to say in that opinion piece was in his presentation today. I suppose it would be fair to describe Dr. Mewett as somebody who puts the emphasis down strongly on the person's choice. Autonomy comes up frequently in this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I am fascinated-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Our college of psychiatrists has had similar concerns. What is fascinating is that listening to both Dr. Mewett and Dr. Nitschke is that they seem to have radically different views, in that for Dr. Nitschke it is about taking it out of medicine and it based on the idea that a person should not have to have a reason or have to meet any test. Dr. Mewett is saying that is an outlier. Does he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: But if a person-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: I wish to develop a few things that arose from my previous questions. In Dr. Mewett's article, which I referred to, he mentioned a friend who had the option of going to the local palliative care unit for palliative sedation, but he wanted to die at home. Some people might be worried about the knock-on effects of changing the law even to a limited degree but recognise that many of the issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. Mewett is in a jurisdiction that has only had this for four years. One of the issues people of good will, including those who might think in certain circumstances they can imagine cases where they would support a change in the law, are worried about is what it will look like in ten or 20 years' time. Even in Oregon where there is limited legislation, there have been big increases in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in New Zealand and Australia: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Rónán Mullen: Dr. Nitschke is not squeamish, therefore. I do not mean any disrespect to Dr. Mewett, but Dr. Nitschke does not have any issues about the terming of that as an assisted suicide. Is that correct?