Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As part of my job in the past, I would have sat with people in accident and emergency who had suicidal thoughts and addiction issues. When they are in that space and looking around them, they can see people with physical illnesses, or accidents coming in, and they do not feel they belong there. The staff are very under pressure but some of them can be dismissive sometimes because the issue is not physical and you cannot see the pain the person is in. That does not mean it is not real.