As already stated, the incidence of suicide has, unfortunately, increased. A multifaceted approach is needed to suicide prevention. Since the publication of the report of the task force on suicide in 1998, more than €8 million in additional funding has been provided towards suicide prevention and invested in research aimed at understanding the issue. Based on figures released last May, suicide is now the biggest killer of Irish people aged 15 to 24. Some 413 people, 83% of them male, took their own lives last year, a drop from the previous year's figure of 439, according to the Central Statistics Office. I hope this trend will continue. People aged between 15 and 34 accounted for almost half of the total deaths. In Ireland, the suicide rate is 10.9 per 100,000 people, compared to 23.8 in Finland and 3.8 in Greece.