Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

It has proved that during its time in office again and again.

Last year, €3.5 billion was allocated to reducing suicide, but the Government has reduced it by 12.5% this year. That is its attitude to those who die by suicide, those who attempted suicide, those who are suicidal, the families who suffer the trauma of bereavement by suicide and the organisations who deal with them. The Minister should not shake his head. The facts are there. He does not know them because he is not interested in knowing them.

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