Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

Plans to allow adults in England and Wales with less than six months to live to be helped to end their lives

were back in the House of Lords on Friday the 6th of February.

Supporters of the plans to legalise assisted dying are worried that the legislation will run out

of parliamentary time. The deadline is the King's speech, which is expected in May. The private

Member's Bill cleared the Commons in June. Members of the Lords are now pouring over the details.

The bill's sponsor in the Upper House, Labour's Lord Faulkner,

wants his fellow peers to get a move on.

My experience of this House is that it is able to focus on the things that...

Let me finish. We focus on the things that, let me finish, that we focus on the things that matter.

And we should not have taken nine days to get to Clause 2.

An opponent of the bill, Lady Alone, who sits as a crossbench or independent peer,

thought that criticism was misleading.

There is nothing going on in the course of this bill, which is filibustering. It is analysis of

the defects and the flaws in this dangerous bill. A filibuster takes place when parliamentarians

seek to delay or talk out proposals they don't like.

A conservative disability rights campaigner insisted that spending time debating potential changes

to the bill shouldn't be seen as filibustering. Lord Sinkwin feared the draft law would put a price

on his head and backed an amendment so that anyone with a congenital, genetic or lifelong condition

wouldn't be treated as terminally ill and thus eligible for an assisted death.

He wanted supporters of the bill to explain...

Why on earth any non-disabled member of this house

...