An Authority should be established with separate funding to deal with this ongoing cancer in our Society. People like Dr John Connolly and Dan Neville have soldiered for years on this issue without any tangible support from State yet we have spent billions on preventing road deaths. The irony of that situation is that single car accidents occurring late at night without third parties involved are likely to be suicide and we do nothing to address the issues .
Let’s fund it now please and no prevarication. Ask Dr Connolly to Head it up for the first two or three years and money should not get in the way where it is needed.

Pringle is a good sort.

So in other words he doesn’t know where the €35mill is been spent but hel check with his junior minister to come up with a valid blatant lie. Same s#%t different day from our LEADERS!

Maybe if they stopped the national economic suicidal tendencies and pursued a saner society it would be a start.

Exports are booming, including agricultural produce, yet the profits are skimmed to pay sociopathic gamblers and kids go to school hungry; and half a million are dumped into disemployment while tranquiliser addiction soars just as homelessness grows in a glut of housing. Taxpayer-educated young people are economically deported to serve elsewhere while we complain of skills shortages.
‘We’re all in it together’ is the mantra, but glance at the chanters and they’re cushioned in luxury.
Tell me that is a sane society. Might it have the slightet bearing on the issue?

There are many agencies nationwide doing Trojan work in this area with very little funds. Do we really need another body set up, surely if the existing ones were properly funded it would make much more sense.

The Tánaiste said that he agrees with Deputy Pringle that suicide is a huge tragedy for those affected, and that the level of suicide in Ireland is “disturbing”.

Disturbing? What level does it need to get to before its a national scandal and needs to be addressed immediately with the funds that were allocated to this area being used for suicide prevention.

I know it has defiantly been a factor recently but there was mental illness & suicide before the recession too & even if the country does get back on it’s knees it will still be here. I don’t think just giving money to the (fantastic) organisations that already exist is the answer. I think a national body such as the one the 3ts are campaigning for would be a great idea. I think everyone is wanting the same thing but a central programme & a central body could really help facilitate this.

The correlation between suicide rates and austerity is shocking. The Government needs to prioritise people over accountancy.

Some people in society are at breaking point and it’s a bloody disgrace and a human tragedy. Enda and Co need to address this issue and easy the burden on the nation.

Meantime we have a referendum so ‘childrens voices can be heard’, even as refugee kids are being silently evicted fro direct-provision hotels and relocated at a few hours notice.

Need I continue?

I could. But I’ll leave a little room on the page.

It is awful that the term mental illness is used to describe the emotional Shock they are being put through.
Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine, accurately describes the process this country and others are being subjected to.
Torture can be very subtle, considering that the leadership in the Dail were educated in this country, they are still willing to dump their fellow citizens in the mire. Breath taking, solidarity?, edited reality, they certainly are good at that. It takes some nerve to dump so much of the population into the frying pan. The connotations of mental illness seems to be that these people may have a susceptibility to same. When in fact they are tortured by a financial system supported by the government. A world of difference.

There are people starving in this country and the money would be better spent feeding them rather than lining the pockets of already overpaid psychologists.

…but: I hold an Irish passport?
And I paid for it? Isn’t that some-
-thing?

IT’s amazing that the politicians in dial-éire use the same language anno
now as do the agri-fat business, as they do in the politics ‘business’, (and) as-they-do
in the simply “mental” policies of ‘ring-fencing’ all those who have even
as much as a shadow-of-suspicion hanging over their heads, that they
might be evil enough to bring “that” on their “loving” family members?
—
The cheek of them…? Quick Thomas, get the dogs?! We’ll have to
“Ring-Fence” these younuuns?! And get the shotgun too (just in case~![?]);
Sure, spEnda penny abroad? : U just never know with these young ones, éh?
Young ones in wheeley chairs? Can you really trust them, deputies of expense?
Rolling down Molesworth Street? Who was he anyways? This Mons. Molesworth?
Did he holiday in Europe?
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‘em all & at once! And at whatever cost? Will 35-millen do?
To have them all ‘ring-fenced’? The Americans only want our smart ones
anyhow? Eh boyz? So a tear of one-in-three… ought to be ‘sweepable’?
Eh Sweeper? Under, over. Or anywhere; but here? On the internet?
Death by neglect? You call it end-of-life? Right Mary? Or am I just
imagining this? “Bás in Eireann” nó[fada],: mBás na hÉireannach?
http://www.endoflife.ie/ éh Gabriel? And I’m only adding this as
some, a person, for whom this article has resonance. In a personal
sense? Me, on my own? Here, not there? & why? Xmass’12 also
on the schedule for pre-meditated cancellation? Like always? b’cos?
u support this? like? Y/N : https://t.co/CWGuxUBD ? looks from here
like y’all lovin’it.

And who is paying for his legal action over the ESM? Us of course. Does he give a shit claiming, as he does, almost a grand a week tax free in expenses? Guess.

why are all comments made deleted?
ought I to kill myself right now because
of you…and your censorship ?