We needed to hear more about the cases of people who could be impacted by an absence of safeguards. When you have a situation where somebody is making an advance request, under whatever circumstances....
You know, I think we'll have to see how this plays out as well with advance requests. I don't doubt that the legislation will, in some form, pass. Then when advance consent is in place we'll be in a situation where it may be that people sign the advance consent to give themselves the option, even if they're not entirely sure what they would want in the moment. You could imagine a situation quite reasonably in which a person fears cognitive decline. They don't want to be in a situation where they're suffering physically and they're not able to access care, but then they are able to receive access to care that they didn't expect.
We've talked as well here about the availability of palliative care, how long it takes for a person to get a palliative care assessment and the lack of availability of palliative care in general. I might hope that in some of the cases we've talked about, a person might actually be offered and receive palliative care in the intervening time and that a person who is experiencing severe pain and suffering in the moment might have, after whatever prescribed period laid out in this legislation, been able to access care that they had previously thought would just not be possible.
These are just some of the challenges around advance consent as well. I spoke earlier about the issue of adaptation, people adapting to different circumstances. I think we also have to take into consideration the way in which care adapts and different—