Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the issues raised in today's edition of the Irish Examiner, which reports on the worrying level of suicide in Ireland. I am seeking a debate in the House so that the Minister for Health and Children can say why little progress has been made in implementing the 33 recommendations made by the Committee on Health and Children in 2006, what tangible deadlines have been set out for the implementation of those recommendations and to ask the Minister to respond to the description of this Government's record on suicide prevention as a litany of failure.

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