Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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91. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive funding available to community and voluntary suicide prevention groups and the application process to access it. [8648/16]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Funding for suicide prevention is provided to the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) by the HSE from its overall budget for mental health. The role of the NOSP is to oversee the implementation of our suicide prevention strategyConnecting for Life, and to coordinate suicide prevention efforts around the country. The NOSP, in partnership with the voluntary sector, helps to support a wide array of work in communities across the county that focus on promoting positive mental health and reducing suicide and self-harm by providing significant grant funding each year as well as by assisting in coordinating and giving a strategic direction to the work undertaken. Funding for NOSP has increased from €3.7 million in 2010 to the current level of €11.55 million.

I have referred the Deputy's question to the HSE for direct reply in respect of detailed information sought relating to the NOSP, or any other funding source used by the Executive for the purposes indicated by the Deputy.