Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Suicide is a desperate sickness that affects the entire country and County Kerry is no different. Parents are losing their children, while children are losing their parents. The services available are just not effective or good enough. We know that before they died people had gone to doctors and hospitals in County Kerry and been sent home with a fistful of tablets. That is not good enough and I am asking for definite action. I am sorry the Minister for Health is not present as there are five Ministers in his Department. If the number who die by suicide were killed on the roads, the roads would be ploughed up and grass seeds spread all over them such that people would have to travel through fields. What I am asking for is proper one to one personal treatment for those who go to doctors or emergency departments and proper facilities.

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