Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We have moved forward with the Reach Out strategy which was launched last year. We have invested resources in this area.

I will not answer Deputy Ó Caoláin's point in terms of trying to identify which groups are most likely to commit suicide. The Deputy made great play of arguing with what Deputy McDaid, a medical doctor who has raised this issue many times in his medical career, not to mind his political career, said on this issue in terms of how wrong he was to stigmatise somebody. Deputy Ó Caoláin then moved on to point out the categories of people who are most likely to commit suicide. That is muddled thinking on the Deputy's part.

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