Written answers
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Department of Health and Children
Suicide Incidence
12:00 pm
John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who died by suicide in the first, second and third quarters of each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34932/08]
John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Data on mortality is compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the Annual and Quarterly Reports on Vital Statistics. The breakdown in numbers of persons who died by suicide in the first three quarters of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 are as follows:
| Year | Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 |
| 2004 | 118 | 129 | 123 |
| 2005 | 122 | 132 | 133 |
| 2006* | 98 | 101 | 115 |
| 2007** | 118 | 129 | 112 |
| *2006 and 2007 figures are based on year of registration data and are preliminary. | |||
| **In 2007, the CSO made a number of changes in the methods by which mortality figures are compiled and some of these changes may have had an impact on the suicide figures. |
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