Request for Dáil debate on suicide denied

THE Irish Examiner’s special investigation into suicide has been raised in the Dáil.

Labour TD Sean Sherlock sought a debate on the issues raised by the supplement and called on the Government to explain its poor record on suicide prevention.

“I am seeking a debate in the House so that the Minister for Health and Children can say why little progress has been made in implementing the 33 recommendations made by the Committee on Health and Children in 2006, what tangible deadlines have been set out for the implementation of those recommendations, and to ask the minister to respond to the description of this Government’s record on suicide prevention as a litany of failure,” Mr Sherlock said.