Written answers
Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Department of Health and Children
Suicide Incidence
9:00 pm
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths and rates per 100,000 population for suicide by Health Service Executive regional areas and county for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. [30887/05]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Mortality data, including principal causes of death, are collected by the Central Statistics Office through the death registration system. Place of residence is coded to the level of county and county borough. The information requested by the Deputy in relation to suicide by county for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 is set out in the following table. Suicide and self-inflicted injury.
| Number of deaths and rate per 100,000 population — 2000-2004 | ||||||||||
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | ||||||
| County/Area | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* | Cases | Rate* |
| Carlow | 2 | 4.53 | 8 | 17.77 | 3 | 6.52 | 6 | 12.79 | 6 | 12.53 |
| Cavan | 7 | 12.75 | 9 | 16.17 | 10 | 17.68 | 8 | 13.96 | 9 | 15.46 |
| Clare | 8 | 8.05 | 13 | 12.85 | 16 | 15.49 | 13 | 12.36 | 14 | 13.04 |
| Cork | 67 | 15.39 | 100 | 22.68 | 62 | 13.84 | 64 | 14.10 | 69 | 15.00 |
| Donegal | 13 | 9.70 | 15 | 11.06 | 20 | 14.54 | 14 | 10.05 | 18 | 12.75 |
| Dublin | 115 | 10.52 | 120 | 10.85 | 103 | 9.17 | 111 | 9.76 | 104 | 9.04 |
| Galway | 20 | 9.97 | 23 | 11.25 | 26 | 12.44 | 21 | 9.85 | 15 | 6.89 |
| Kerry | 20 | 15.45 | 20 | 15.29 | 13 | 9.81 | 9 | 6.72 | 21 | 15.47 |
| Kildare | 20 | 13.09 | 12 | 7.59 | 21 | 12.81 | 18 | 10.61 | 13 | 7.40 |
| Kilkenny | 17 | 21.78 | 15 | 18.97 | 11 | 13.69 | 11 | 13.51 | 10 | 12.11 |
| Laois | 6 | 10.65 | 7 | 12.18 | 6 | 10.21 | 4 | 6.67 | 3 | 4.90 |
| Leitrim | 4 | 15.77 | 6 | 23.49 | 7 | 27.13 | 3 | 11.54 | 4 | 15.25 |
| Limerick | 32 | 18.76 | 16 | 9.27 | 30 | 17.11 | 24 | 13.52 | 25 | 13.90 |
| Longford | 3 | 9.82 | 6 | 19.50 | 4 | 12.87 | 2 | 6.39 | 5 | 15.82 |
| Louth | 13 | 13.3 | 7 | 7.03 | 14 | 13.75 | 16 | 15.41 | 12 | 11.33 |
| Mayo | 17 | 14.83 | 17 | 14.68 | 18 | 15.33 | 10 | 8.42 | 11 | 9.14 |
| Meath | 11 | 8.82 | 19 | 14.72 | 19 | 14.18 | 11 | 7.93 | 24 | 16.68 |
| Monaghan | 11 | 21.24 | 2 | 3.84 | 4 | 7.61 | 8 | 15.11 | 8 | 14.99 |
| Offaly | 18 | 29.20 | 12 | 19.18 | 11 | 17.28 | 7 | 10.83 | 12 | 18.26 |
| Roscommon | 6 | 11.37 | 5 | 9.40 | 4 | 7.44 | 3 | 5.53 | 1 | 1.83 |
| Sligo | 3 | 5.26 | 10 | 17.39 | 4 | 6.87 | 7 | 11.91 | 10 | 16.85 |
| Tipperary NR | 9 | 15.11 | 10 | 16.61 | 11 | 18.03 | 14 | 22.69 | 11 | 17.61 |
| Tipperary SR | 11 | 14.22 | 13 | 16.64 | 11 | 13.90 | 12 | 15.01 | 6 | 7.42 |
| Waterford | 12 | 12.19 | 17 | 17.03 | 12 | 11.82 | 8 | 7.77 | 16 | 15.30 |
| Westmeath | 9 | 13.16 | 9 | 12.86 | 6 | 8.35 | 6 | 8.15 | 7 | 9.28 |
| Wexford | 23 | 20.62 | 19 | 16.68 | 17 | 14.58 | 23 | 19.31 | 11 | 9.03 |
| Wicklow | 9 | 8.20 | 9 | 8.03 | 15 | 13.08 | 11 | 9.39 | 12 | 10.03 |
| Ireland | 486 | 12.82 | 519 | 13.49 | 478 | 12.20 | 444 | 11.16 | 457 | 11.30 |
| * Rate per 100,000 population. | ||||||||||
| Source: Central Statistics Office. | ||||||||||
| Data for 2004 are provisional and based on year of registration. |
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