Task Force on Suicide - Government must act immediately

This week the Government will be presented with the report from the Task Force on Suicide which will seek to address one of the most appalling problems facing this country which relentlessly, every year, claims hundreds of lives.

It is understandable that those concerned with highlighting the annual devastation it wreaks on families may be rather sceptical of the Coalition’s reaction to whatever proposals it may contain.

Shamefully, the Government chose to ignore the recommendations made to it seven years ago by an expert group, many of them relating to suicide. Practically, none of them were implemented in a response which was symptomatic of the administration’s abysmal attitude to the general issue of mental health services.