Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-09-28
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Regina Doherty (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I move amendment No. 44:
In page 61, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:
“(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7):
“(8) Nothing in this Act shall prevent a Registered Medical Practitioner from exercising clinical judgment in a life-threatening emergency to disregard an Advance Healthcare Directive, where they reasonably believe it should not apply, or that the patient would not wish it to apply, in those particular circumstances.”.”.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-28