Written answers
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Department of Health and Children
Suicide Incidence
10:00 pm
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide the suicide rate for 2009 by county and gender. [30862/10]
John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Data on mortality are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the Annual and Quarterly Reports on Vital Statistics. The number of deaths by suicide in 2009, classified by County, is shown in the table below. These figures are based on year of registration and are therefore subject to future revision.
Death by suicide by County and gender 2009
County | Male | Female | Total |
Carlow | 3 | 5 | 8 |
Cavan | 9 | 2 | 11 |
Clare | 13 | 3 | 16 |
Cork | 79 | 14 | 93 |
Donegal | 15 | 5 | 20 |
Dublin | 86 | 25 | 111 |
Galway | 26 | 3 | 29 |
Kerry | 17 | 1 | 18 |
Kildare | 14 | 4 | 18 |
Kilkenny | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Laois | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Leitrim | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Limerick | 21 | 4 | 25 |
Longford | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Louth | 14 | 3 | 17 |
Mayo | 9 | 4 | 13 |
Meath | 17 | 7 | 24 |
Monaghan | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Offaly | 9 | 2 | 11 |
Roscommon | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Sligo | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Tipperary | 25 | 3 | 28 |
Waterford | 11 | 3 | 14 |
Westmeath | 8 | 3 | 11 |
Wexford | 17 | 5 | 22 |
Wicklow | 12 | 2 | 14 |
Total | 422 | 105 | 527 |
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