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09/09/2013
Govt Urged To Focus On Suicide Prevention
The current approach to preventing suicide is "dangerously unacceptable", according to Fianna Fáil Senator Marc MacSharry, who has called on the government to "drastically increase" spending on suicide prevention.
Following the publication of the National Office for Suicide Prevention's annual report last week, in addition to Console hosting World Suicide Prevention Day Conference, MacSharry said: "Is it right, ...that we as a country are so reliant on charities to provide this line of defence, whose operations receive much too little by way of government funding, and instead are dependent on the good will of donations? I don't think the government would be so complacent if our ambulances could not afford petrol to call out to a stroke patient.
"Despite the suggestion that rates have in some way stabilised statistics confirm what we all know, the current approach is doing much too little. "Politicians need to wake up, resource the plan and professionals that can offer real solutions.
"Ireland has the fourth worst rate of suicide for young males in all of Europe, and across the board we lag unacceptably behind our British neighbours."
(MH/JP)
Following the publication of the National Office for Suicide Prevention's annual report last week, in addition to Console hosting World Suicide Prevention Day Conference, MacSharry said: "Is it right, ...that we as a country are so reliant on charities to provide this line of defence, whose operations receive much too little by way of government funding, and instead are dependent on the good will of donations? I don't think the government would be so complacent if our ambulances could not afford petrol to call out to a stroke patient.
"Despite the suggestion that rates have in some way stabilised statistics confirm what we all know, the current approach is doing much too little. "Politicians need to wake up, resource the plan and professionals that can offer real solutions.
"Ireland has the fourth worst rate of suicide for young males in all of Europe, and across the board we lag unacceptably behind our British neighbours."
(MH/JP)
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