Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not a member of the joint committee and others Senators will have engaged with this matter much more than I have. I wonder about it at a human level, however, because I imagine there are people who would rather not have to get into all the specifics. I certainly know of families where a person is quite clear who he or she would want to make the necessary decisions for him or her when those decisions have to be made. I wonder whether sufficient account is being taken of that human dimension where people would rather leave the nod to a certain person, for example, an enduring power of attorney, and would be left the freedom to do that. Has consideration been given to the merit of that argument, in other words, where a person does not want to get into the specifics of an AHD requirement but would like to entrust the future decisions to a person by way of the enduring power of attorney?