Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Following on from that, I refer to the suicide prevention programme to be fully implemented within tertiary education. Has the Minister any service level agreement with the HSE or the Department of Health regarding the suicide prevention programmes within third level education? There is a responsibility upon the HSE and the Department in this country and unless the Minister has some sort of service level agreement with them, they can opt-out from this responsibility. This cannot be a responsibility of his Department alone. There has to be an opt-in by both the HSE and the Department of Health but given the pressures that they are under at the moment, they will try to backtrack from their own responsibilities within the area of suicide prevention in third level education.