At every opportunity Mr Kenny has made the case for assisted dying legislation to be passed by the Oireachtas and he was back campaigning on Friday.
Minister for Finance Michael McGrath signalled that stance when he said:"It strikes me as ambitious that it could be done in the remainder of this Government's life." Introducing a bill into the Dáil would inevitably trigger opposition within the Government's own ranks. He is the husband of the late Marie Fleming, the 59-year-old terminally ill woman living with multiple sclerosis, who challenged the law criminalising assisted suicide.
Ms Lazer also argued that the Government has a moral obligation to act, not just to consider the committee's recommendations, but to legislate given there was cross-party support. The committee had heard numerous times, he said, that depression associated with a terminal diagnosis could and does abate once the right supports are in place.