A Special Oireachtas committee will meet today to discuss consent and capacity in relation to the prospect of lifting the Government's legal ban on Assisted dying.

Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Dr Brendan O’Shea, Kildare GP, Assistant Adjuvant Professor in Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin & Member of Irish Doctors Supporting Medical Assistance in Dying and Professor Siobhan McHale, Consultant liaison psychiatrist in Beaumont Hospital and member of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland.