"My Lords, this debate seems to have characterised everyone in the House as being either supporters or opponents of the Bill. I declare myself somewhere in the middle, and I suspect that there are many others who fall into that category who may have been quieter.
"My Lords, we know that the 18 to 25 year-olds have many of the same complex problems as the under-18s and, as the Minister has said, they need similar holistic wraparound care, although that is not necessarily yet in place. However, Dr Levy’s review had a narrower remit than mine, …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 383. I have so far limited my speeches on the Bill to a maximum of two to three minutes but on this one occasion I would like to take more time, because this may be the only opportunity I have to discuss …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"May I respond to that? I have not said that they cannot be part of the team. It is likely that the person who is covering a particular area or locality will be known to the team and to the palliative care services. They may or may not be as …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"They would; that is the point of it. Your co-ordinating professional, as I described them, would be with you throughout, as would the specialist assisted dying doctor, from the time you started engaging with them. You might want to check in with one or the other, depending on whether you …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"My Lords, I was going to talk about the consultation, which is fundamentally not fit for purpose, but other noble Lords have covered that well, so I want to make a couple of other points about the way in which the Government are failing to understand the impact of social …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"Nobody here is saying that consultations are all a waste of time. What we are saying is that this particular consultation is deeply flawed in its construction...." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak to a number of amendments in this group. I can be briefer on some because the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, has copied some of my homework and taken it as his own—which I take to be a good thing...." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"Not at all. When I first saw the term “independent advocates” in the Bill, I worried because, in my clinical career as a neurodisability consultant, I have had some very negative experiences of advocates who allegedly were speaking on behalf of people with a range of disabilities but who, we …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech
"My Lords, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, the person or people who will make the best judgment about prognosis will be the treating team: the treating doctor and the multiprofessional team. I have always been somewhat dubious about how much those successive doctors can add …..." Baroness Cass - View Speech