Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Good2Talk Counselling and Psychotherapy Support Services is a counselling service based in Mullingar that covers County Westmeath.

Good2Talk was awarded funding through the HSE resource office for suicide prevention of €25,000 for 2014 and €39,600 for 2015. In addition, it received €18,000 under the National Lottery grant scheme for 2016, and has, I understand, made an application under the National Lottery grant scheme for 2017.

The HSE funding was accessed by the resource office for suicide prevention under the community resilience funding stream financed by the National Office for Suicide Prevention. This funding stream ended in 2015 with the advent of the national strategy, Connecting for Life, in 2015. The ending of the community resilience funding stream after 2015 was communicated to all of the recipients of the funding, including Good2Talk. All future needs for funding will be assessed under the provisions and implementation of the new county suicide prevention plans, which aim to develop and implement consistent multi-agency suicide-prevention action plans to enhance communities' capacity to respond to suicidal behaviours. Good2Talk has been informed about the development of the Connecting for Life implementation plan for Longford and Westmeath and has been invited to participate in the plan's consultation process.

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