Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the increase in suicides for the first three quarters of last year, from 279 the previous year to 354, representing an increase of 26%; the need for the Government to recognise the pressures people are experiencing because of the economic recession and for it to understand the pain that so many people are suffering and that they see no other solution to their situation but to take their lives; to recognise the special circumstances of the bereaved by suicide who experience a sense of stigma, shame, loneliness and rejection; and the need for the Government to resource suicide prevention programmes and suicide bereavement counselling.

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