Written answers
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Department of Health
Suicide Incidence
Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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604. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date Department statistics on suicide and self-harm since 2010 in tabular form by constituency and county. [19844/15]
Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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National mortality data, including that relating to suicide, is published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on a quarterly and annual basis. The most recent CSO data available is for 2013; however this data is provisional and is subject to change, when the data by year of occurrence is published. Details of the number of deaths by suicide, for the period 2010 to 2013 is set out below.
Deaths by Suicide and Intentional Self-harm from 2010-2013 by Area of Residence
Province | County | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | *2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leinster | |||||
Carlow | 7 | 7 | 5 | 11 | |
Dublin City | 51 | 57 | 61 | 48 | |
South Dublin | 18 | 37 | 15 | 16 | |
Fingal | 19 | 10 | 17 | 17 | |
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown | 18 | 10 | 16 | 13 | |
Kildare | 18 | 27 | 24 | 23 | |
Kilkenny | 8 | 14 | 12 | 13 | |
Laois | 18 | 13 | 10 | 10 | |
Longford | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Louth | 17 | 14 | 21 | 17 | |
Meath | 10 | 14 | 18 | 11 | |
Offaly | 15 | 10 | 12 | 8 | |
Westmeath | 13 | 12 | 9 | 11 | |
Wexford | 16 | 29 | 33 | 23 | |
Wicklow | 15 | 17 | 10 | 5 | |
Munster | |||||
Clare | 8 | 13 | 15 | 14 | |
Cork City | 22 | 16 | 27 | 14 | |
Cork County | 44 | 62 | 37 | 42 | |
Kerry | 24 | 26 | 32 | 28 | |
Limerick City | 8 | 13 | 15 | 8 | |
Limerick County | 19 | 18 | 19 | 12 | |
North Tipperary | 6 | 10 | 5 | 6 | |
South Tipperary | 13 | 12 | 13 | 12 | |
Waterford City | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |
Waterford County | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | |
Connacht | |||||
Galway City | 5 | 13 | 3 | 6 | |
Galway County | 22 | 24 | 25 | 22 | |
Leitrim | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | |
Mayo | 18 | 17 | 25 | 16 | |
Roscommon | 10 | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
Sligo | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | |
Ulster (part of) | |||||
Cavan | 7 | 8 | 7 | 15 | |
Donegal | 6 | 13 | 12 | 15 | |
Monaghan | 8 | 4 | 12 | 9 | |
Total | 495 | 554 | 541 | 475 |
Statistics on the number of people presenting to hospital emergency departments as a result of an episode of deliberate self harm are published on an annual basis by the National Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm. Information by HSE Hospitals Group, for the years 2010 to 2013, is set out below.
Treated Episodes of Deliberate Self Harm by Hospital HSE Region
Dublin./Mid-Leinster | Dublin North East | South | West | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dublin Midlands | Dublin South | Dublin North East | North Eastern | South Eastern | Southern | Mid -Western | West North Western | ||
2010 | 1630 | 1642 | 1868 | 932 | 1325 | 1632 | 1169 | 1768 | 11966 |
2011 | 1642 | 1752 | 2131 | 936 | 1273 | 1825 | 1015 | 1642 | 12216 |
2012 | 1814 | 1623 | 2050 | 941 | 1298 | 1719 | 1003 | 1562 | 12010 |
2013 | 1716 | 1631 | 1960 | 749 | 1156 | 1492 | 894 | 1463 | 11061 |
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