Meeting dates set around country for euthanasia Bill hearings | Health Central NZ

The Justice Select Committee is hitting the road next month to visit 15 centres and hear some of the 35,000 submitters to the End of Life Choice Bill in person.

The unprecedented number of submissions on ACT’s David Seymour’s bill led to the decision last month by the committee to take to the road and extend its reporting deadline to March to allow it to consider more submissions  on the bill that would allow the terminally ill – or those suffering a ‘grievous and irremediable medical condition’ ­– to legally request medically assisted dying.

The committee has now published a timetable for multiple meetings in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington as well as 12 regional centres from Whangarei to Invercargill over the next two months.
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