Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying

Consent and Capacity: Discussion

Dr. Louise Campbell:

I honestly do not know how to respond to Senator O'Loughlin's question about Dignitas. If it is an organisation that does what it says on the tin, which is to provide a compassionate intervention at the end of life for people who have no other alternatives, or do not see themselves as having an alternative, then I do not necessarily see anything misguided or wrong with that intention. I do not know what its financial management involves, what the financial bottom line is, or whether it makes any profit from that. I presume it sustains itself.