Dan Neville
Question:379 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the expenditure from the Exchequer on suicide prevention programmes in 2000 and 2001 to date. [26197/01]
Written Answers. - Suicide Prevention.
Considerable progress has been made to date in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the national task force on suicide. Central to the report was the provision of a national suicide prevention and reduction strategy which is now in place. Additional funding for suicide prevention programmes was provided by my Department to health boards over the last two years as follows: 2000, £1.2 million, 1.524 million; 2001, £0.83 million, 1.054 million.
These figures include funding of £300,000, 380,921, over the past two years to the National Suicide Research Foundation toward the establishment of a para-suicide register and a national para-suicide study.
The figures do not include funding provided by other Government Departments such as the Departments of Education and Science, the Environment and Local Government and Justice, Equality and Law Reform, which were identified in the report of the national task force on suicide as having a role to play in suicide prevention.