Seanad debates
Thursday, 27 February 2003
Suicide Incidence: Statements.
There has been incredible change in our society, both economically and socially in terms of the cultural and sexual norms. I have been a Member of this House for 20 years, which is not a long period, and remember the traumas people went through in the early 1980s about a minuscule change in the law on contraception – I do not intend to go off on a tangent about sexuality. That is an example of the transformation of values in our society. I both welcome and encourage much of this transformation but we must face up to the fact that that type of transformation never comes about without a downside, of which one of the tragic manifestations is the increased incidence of suicide.
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