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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: As in the treatment of patients - that is what doctors do. Can Dr. Campbell name a medical framework that incorporates what her submission has detailed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Are they medical frameworks or are they legal frameworks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: At the conclusion of her submission, Dr. Campbell noted "not until vast improvements are made in the provision and organisation of services to support those living with disability, mental illness or chronic physical conditions and in the provision of accessible, effective palliative care services should any legal changes be implemented". Is Dr. Campbell saying that we need to hit the utopia...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Would the witness have concerns about some of the other jurisdictions that have extended this practice to children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did Dr. Campbell say earlier that data should not be incorporated in the arguments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Excluding data, should assisted suicide be extended to children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Can Dr. Campbell give an example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Professor O'Neill noted that the decriminalisation of assisted suicide "was certainly never seen to be an expression of a societal desire to extend access to suicide as a human right, or to position suicide as an act that equality legislation might facilitate". Does Dr. Campbell have any concerns about the potential normalisation of the act of suicide and bridging the gap in terms of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I have read a part of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: He makes the argument that it could normalise suicide as it is defined presently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I have heard that too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Dr. Campbell has mentioned that she wants a properly regulated system with genuine oversight and robust safeguards that outweigh the risk of harm to vulnerable persons. Can she give an example of a regime which does that? Does any regime that she has studied do it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: A concern of our next witness, who is from Disability Action Northern Ireland, is that the stringent controls that would need to be put in place for the legalisation of assisted suicide would ultimately force the individual to forego his or her choice. By importing a very specific focus on that particular aspect of the ethical framework, we could deny vulnerable people the right to exercise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: My final question centres on the contribution by Dr. Regina McQuillan last week. She spoke about diluting the resource allocation for palliative care. If one imports the right to assisted suicide into our health care framework, then one potentially dilutes or undermines attempts to achieve the best health care system for everybody. Would Dr. Campbell accept that importing the right to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: Is Dr. Campbell saying it is cheaper?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I thank Ms Hall for her presentation. I agree with pretty much everything in it. Does she want to respond to some of the debate she witnessed earlier? Were any of her concerns resolved in the responses given about regimes elsewhere?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: I thank Ms Hall.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (29 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: 548. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full year savings achieved by the abolition of the service commitment incentive scheme for Air Corps personnel. [50903/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (28 Nov 2017)
Jack Chambers: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which the minor works grant will be made available to primary schools; if this grant will be a guaranteed yearly payment in order to assist schools to adequately budget for the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50488/17]