Committee to recommend laws to allow those with terminal illness avail of assisted dying 

If enacted, this Bill would give a medical practitioner the legal right to assist a qualifying person to end their life. Picture: Lynne Cameron/PA Wire

New laws to allow people suffering from terminal illnesses to avail of assisted dying are being recommended by a special Oireachtas Committee.

Politicians who have been examining the issue are set to recommend that assisted dying be legislated for in cases where a person with an incurable illness is expected to die within six months.