The constitution is not a block on the Oireachtas legislating over assisted dying, a Dáil committee has been told.

Members of the Oireachtas committee for assisted dying have heard from three academic experts on regulatory and legal issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide. They heard while there was no “block or bar” to the introduction of legislation, members would deal with “difficult, moral questions” before potentially doing so. Many committee members made reference to the case of Marie Fleming, an assisted dying campaigner who died in 2013 having been unsuccessful in a case in both the High Court and the Supreme Court.