Vicky Phelan pleads with TDs to be afforded a dignified death

The words of Vicky Phelan, pleading to be afforded a dignified death, were read into the Dáil record tonight.

During a debate on the Dying With Dignity Bill, Labour leader Alan Kelly read the plea from the Limerick cancer campaigner into the record, where she called on TDs to put aside their own feelings on the issue and vote against sending the bill to a special committee, as is planned by the Government.