Michael Mullins (Fine Gael)

There is often a reluctance to discuss the after care needs of patients once they are discharged from hospital. The practice of excluding the family in the recovery programme must change. Those are issues we must tease out in this House with the Minister. Given the numbers of people losing their lives through suicide, which is probably three times as many as the numbers killed on the roads, it is an issue of national importance and this House should discuss it at the earliest opportunity. I hope the Leader will facilitate such a debate to which I know almost every Member in this House will want to contribute.