Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A Dundalk women, Sinéad Browne, whose only son took his own life last month, wants to know why her son was sent home from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital twice, despite his saying he intended to kill himself. Ian Browne, 25, from Dundalk had a letter from his general practitioner asking that he be admitted to the hospital as he was going to commit suicide and was self-harming very seriously. This young man was looking for help. He went to his doctor and told his doctor he was going to end his life, his doctor wrote a serious letter to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, and on two separate occasions the hospital sent him home. The doctor feels he may have had benzodiazepines in his system. Is the Tánaiste telling me that throwing a young person or any person out on the streets and telling him or her to come back in three weeks is not appalling? The amount of money being invested in the HSE is unreal. In 2017 almost 400 suicides were registered in Ireland, eight out of ten of which were men. In addition, the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland recorded-----

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