Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

I call on the Leader to arrange an early debate on a matter which I consider to be of extreme importance. This evening, the HSE is sponsoring the invitation to a debate in Cork University Hospital entitled "Why euthanasia should be legalised". The invited speaker is in favour of involuntary euthanasia and believes in killing patients whose cost benefit ratio is unfavourable to plough money into other areas of the health services. We have had tremendous disquiet about some of the goings on in our nursing homes where there was a strong failure by the HSE to enforce proper standards and regulations. The fact it now seeks to promote this——