JUSTICE Minister Helen McEntee has set out the issues that a special committee on assisted dying will would be asked to consider. But the Minister was told that the process of legalising assisted dying was being regrettably delayed by the Government’s decision to refer the matter to a Dáil committee for the next twelve months. His party also wanted greater resources for hospice and palliative care, but there is no conflict, he said, adding that it was irresponsible to conflate suicide and assisted dying. His party colleague, PBP TD Richard Boyd Barrett, said he regretted that a Government counter-motion referred to “assisted suicide,” which had very different connotations. New Zealand is to hold a referendum on assisted dying in a fortnights’ time.

Source: Irish Independent October 01, 2020 20:26 UTC