Dáil debates
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions
Mental Health Commission Reports
10:55 am
Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The audits referenced in the question highlight that there are 18 recommendations. Will the Minister share with the House what action plans he will put in place with respect to the recommendations set out in the audits? For the benefit of the House, the audits involve an investigation into community and mental health services, into approved centres and into the community setting which deal with the compliance or the non-compliance of obligations to report to the Mental Health Commission where, tragically, death by suicide by a person within the mental health services takes place. I appreciate that is not entirely preventable within the mental health service. However, it is essential that we get to answer this question if we are to learn anything from what we would regard as the greatest public health crisis in the country, which is death by suicide.
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