Letters to the Editor: Michael Healy Rae should be commended for his chairing

Our readers discuss the Oireachtas joint committee on assisted dying, the lack of home care supports, Varadkar's stepping down, the children of Gaza, and National Spring Clean

One reader gave evidence to the Oireachtas joint committee on assisted dying and was impressed by the way chairman Michael Healy Rae ensured that witnesses were both questioned rigorously and treated fairly and respectfully. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins

Michael Healy Rae should not be criticised for chairing a committee and then voting against the majority report (‘Committee rows as members are split on assisted dying report recommendations’, Irish Examiner, March 19).

The highly respected academic Dr Edmund Pellegrino, who chaired the President’s Council on Bioethics in the US from 2005 to 2009, was once in the same position.