James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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According to the HRB, County Donegal has an admission rate of 484 per 100,000 while County Monaghan has a rate of 187 per 100,000. Donegal has two and half times the admissions as Monaghan while the two counties are relatively close to each other in terms of population. Monaghan also has the highest suicide rate, according to the National Office of Suicide Prevention. I also hear that Monaghan has pretty decent community mental health care. Can we extract any correlation or causation? Why would one county have admission rates that are dramatically higher than those in another county, while that other county has very high suicide rates? Is there anything we can take from that or is it more dangerous than anything to be looking at the statistics like that?