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Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank Senator Clonan for bringing this Bill forward and allowing many of us across the Houses to co-sign it. It is extremely important legislation. We know that the needs of children should be met by the State through the provision of well resourced public health and education services. We also know how vital early intervention is. No one else here could have outlined as eloquently as...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: That is the interpretation.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: That is the interpretation.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: The Bill can pass Second Stage or not. The reality is that we will continue to have assessment delays for children, multiyear waiting lists for therapies and a lack of access to educational supports and appropriate school places. These are profoundly affecting thousands of children. Some areas perform better than others but overall, we know too many children and families are left behind....

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

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. Professor Madden said many people who seek prescriptions do not use them. Does she know of any figures on this? This might be a question for the international panel when we get to that stage.

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

Annie Hoey: Yes.

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

Annie Hoey: Gosh. That is-----

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

Annie Hoey: That is interesting. One third of people seeking these prescriptions do not go ahead and use them.

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

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses. I found that interesting when Professor Madden mentioned it. Mention was also made of Canada and the process of introducing a measure to allow a person to give a advance waiver of final consent if they have lost capacity at that time. Nowhere else in the world currently has this process where it is possible to give a waiver in advance. I do not want to suppose....

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

Annie Hoey: Okay.

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

Annie Hoey: Yes. I have one more short question.

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

Annie Hoey: Mention was made that in the state of Victoria in Australia and in New Zealand a doctor cannot initiate the conversation on assisted dying. What are the consequences of that? Are there medical consequences? I had not even thought about the issue of the difference between capacity in terms of being unconscious per seand whatever we might think of as being the other variations of that. In...

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

Annie Hoey: Okay.

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

Annie Hoey: I have one question around conscientious objection, where in some jurisdictions - and correct me if I am wrong - a doctor is not required to refer someone on if there is a conscientious objection. Did I pick that up correctly? Did somebody say that?

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

Annie Hoey: Under our current framework, I presume we would probably have to include that there would have to be a referral onwards. Within our own framework, if we were to include or not include that, would we then have to change other ways that medicine is done here?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: I was just at a briefing by the local drug and alcohol task forces in Buswells Hotel. They were talking about investment to support and aid their recovery. I am sure they will have circulated the information to everyone and I need not go into great detail. Drugs and alcohol do not only affect the communities people might think of. There were representatives from Ballymun, Dún...

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

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. We went through this before when we talked about a dignified death. I do not know that we even provide now for a dignified death for every person in Ireland. We touched on this before in the committee, in terms of people dying homeless on the streets or suffering because medicine has not caught up. I asked previously if it is possible to...

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

Annie Hoey: Yes. For the two Irish-based witnesses.

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

Annie Hoey: Professor Huxtable might be able to answer this question. I am still trying to get my head around the concept of morality and right and wrong in different countries. Unfortunately, it feels rather pressing on this particular issue that we somehow get this right. I do not know how we come about that. In some countries this has been deemed permissible and then in other countries it has been...