"My Lords, I think we would all agree that the best way to reduce the number of people dying in the English Channel is to reduce the number of unsuitable boats crossing the English Channel. The Government were elected on a pledge to smash the gangs. How is that going, …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I come back to the question asked by my noble friend Lord Borwick. Is the Government’s new position that they would make taxis accessible in the rest of the country outside London, where they are already accessible, but they feel inhibited in doing so because they cannot make …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out so clearly his succinct response to the issues raised by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. It is good to have those comments on the record. It also saves me the trouble of asking all the questions that it asked and pressing …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 175 and 384, in my name, and I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, for her support.
These amendments concern prognosis. We have discussed prognosis briefly in previous debates, but I wanted to raise this in the context of …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I am not saying—nor was anybody—that a positive attitude on its own is going to save somebody from cancer. Professor Gould also benefited from the fact that he had the best medical treatment, and he went on various experimental courses. That was not my point at all. But …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"I am now precluded from taking further interventions, because there is a limit on how long I can speak and that was a very excessive intervention. I will discuss with the noble Baroness outside the Chamber what a reasonable expectation is, if it is not based on a prognosis. I …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"We are all agreed that the reference to six months is to be found in Clause 2, where it says that
“an inevitably progressive illness or disease which cannot be reversed by treatment, and … the person’s death in consequence of that illness or disease can reasonably be expected within …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, before he vanishes, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, and apologise to him for not acknowledging in my opening remarks the fact that he had added his name to my Amendment 175.
"My Lords, if I may briefly answer that, I am saying that we have 3,000 years of a moral framework in which it is morally abhorrent. I am not here primarily to protect the sensitivities and feelings of doctors. I am saying what a violent novelty this is that we …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech