Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am making the point that it was the same with road deaths. We prevaricated and we were all part of it, but then we dealt with it. It took huge energy and courage, but it has been dealt with. A number of such deaths, as we know, were also suicides and we have the results. We need new thinking and new specialties. I believe we need to remove the involvement of the HSE and take it out of its hands. It is not capable of dealing with such a serious and desperate situation. It is suffering from inertia with too many squabbles between sections, as we have seen. This needs to be tackled honestly by all of us here and dealt with because, as I have said, it is an epidemic.

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