Mick Barry
Question:832. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Connecting for Life suicide prevention programme in a full year. [24804/23]
View answerTuesday, 23 May 2023
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Ireland’s national suicide and self-harm reduction strategy, Connecting for Life, was launched in June 2015. In December 2019 the Department of Health supported an extension of Connecting for Life for a further five years to 2024, with official approval by Cabinet granted in November 2020. This followed the completion of an Independent Interim Strategy Review of Connecting for Life 2015-2020, which concluded that the seven strategic goals of Connecting for Life remained relevant beyond 2020.
Connecting for Life is made up of 7 goals, 69 actions, and is cross-governmental in scope, with a whole of population public health focus, reflective of the complex challenge that suicide and self-harm prevention presents.
The HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) is responsible for the implementation of Connecting for Life. NOSP sits within the Mental Health Community Strategy and Planning function of the HSE and works closely with HSE Mental Health Community Operations and others. Its role is to support, inform and monitor, in addition to coordinating, the implementation of Connecting for Life.
The NOSP expenditure for 2022 was €14m, this is implemented under the below headings in relation to Connecting for Life. Further information on previous years expenditure can be found in the NOSP annual reports at www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/4/mental-health-services/nosp/about/annualreports/. The 2023 budget for NOSP is €14.15m.
HSE NOSP expenditure in 2022
|
2021 |
2022 |
|
|
Grants to agencies(breakdown next page) |
7,384,509 |
7,065,772 |
|
Communications projects |
1,257,615 |
1,157,226 |
|
Research |
501,975 |
505,258 |
|
Non-grant expenditure(Office expenses, salaries, overheads, etc) |
1,108,439 |
1,333,995 |
|
Training programmes(Non-clinical training, clinical training and National DBT Project) |
1,183,663 |
1,582,627 |
|
Regional liaison and suicide prevention servicesCapacity building |
1,307,240 |
1,307,240 |
|
Resource Officers for Suicide PreventionLocal Connecting for Life Implementation PlansGrants to agencies via CHOs |
1,326,226 |
1,050,286 |
|
Total |
14,069,666 |
14,002,404 |