Assisted dying: Irish parliament votes in favour of report

Kenny was also speaking on the Drivetime programme.

He said the choice of assisted dying should be a “fundamental human right”.

“I boil it down to this: if somebody is in a position where they’re terminally ill and they do not want to go through a certain period of that illness, whether it’s weeks, days, or even hours, they should have a fundamental human right to say, ‘I want to end my life on my terms’ when they’re coming to the end of their life,” Kenny said.

He added that “not everybody will choose that situation”.

Kenny highlighted that in other countries, such as New Zealand and Australia, there are “safeguards; there’s oversight; there’s a legal framework of how somebody makes that request”.