A proposal to develop and implement a national policy framework for suicide prevention has been developed by the national suicide review group and submitted to the health boards executive for review. It is important to stress that this proposed strategy will be action based from the outset as it will build on existing policy vis-à-vis the final report of the national task force on suicide published in 1998. Furthermore, ongoing strategies and prevention programmes across the health boards are continuously reviewed by the national suicide review group and routinely reported in its annual reports. This report meets the requirement of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001, which provides that the Minister for Health and Children will make a report each year to each House of the Oireachtas on the measures taken by health boards in the preceding year to address the problem of suicide.