Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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It goes without saying that this is a very important committee. It is great to get the insight of so many people. Heretofore, we have been very much focused on and to some degree preoccupied with the issue of young people. It is good to hear Dr. Doherty refer to the challenges that are there for adults also. The data she presented from Sweden are quite frightening. Politicians get very emotional when it comes to suicide but it is clearly very prevalent among people who have autism, with or without an intellectual disability. Surely that is something we should be pushing with the HSE from purely a humanitarian point of view as it is clearly a problem.