Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I echo the support for the amendment which is very important and on which there has been a lot of very good work done. This is obviously an incredibly complex issue, but the express will of the relevant person is certainly paramount. Any mechanism or means that can be used to find out what it is should be used, no matter what state the person is in. There are questions about somebody making an advance health care directive, for example. If he or she decides in an advance health care directive that there are certain treatments he or she does not want to have, surely that must be taken into consideration. It is not just an issue of what he or she would like to happen, but also what treatments he or she would not like to receive.

I commend the Senators involved and the work of the academics who have been supporting it. I lend our support to the amendment.