Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent importance: the tragic death of a young mother and her two children in County Wexford; the failure of the Government to introduce comprehensive suicide prevention programmes based on research; why 450 people take their lives annually and more than 11,500 engage in self-harm; the failure of the Government to act on the 80 recommendations of the national task force on suicide; and the statement by the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children on 12 April that, seven years after the publication of the report of the national task force on suicide, he awaits a report on action plans for a national strategy on suicide prevention later this year.

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