Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government commits to early intervention for people with mental illness problems and to the detection and treatment of people at risk of suicide. According to figures published by Pieta House yesterday, ten people take their own lives every week in the State.

It calls for suicide to be given the same attention as road deaths. Will the Government now resource and prioritise this issue as it has committed to do in the programme for Government?

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