Joint Committee on Assisted Dying to discuss developing a legal framework for assisted dying

The meeting at 11am in Committee Room 4 of Leinster House will hear from Professor Deirdre Madden and Professor Mary Donnelly from the School of Law at University College Cork, and Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford.

Committee Cathaoirleach Deputy Michael Healy-Rae said: “This will be the Committee’s final meeting on the legal and constitutional context of assisted dying. Members look forward to hearing from Professor Madden, who specialises in medical ethics and the law, including consent and end of life care, and Professor Donnelly, whose area of expertise is medical law and capacity. We will also hear from Professor Jones from the Anscombe Bioethics Centre which advises the Catholic Church in Ireland and the UK on moral questions arising from clinical practice and biomedical research.”

The Joint Committee on Assisted Dying has 14 Members, nine from the Dáil and five from the Seanad.

The meeting in Committee Room 4 can be viewed live on Oireachtas TV.

Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.