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ACTION ON SUICIDE RALLY: Mandate

Facts

• Suicide accounts for the deaths of five hundred Irish people each year.
• Suicide is currently the leading cause of death in youths under 24 years.
• Youth Suicide in Ireland ranks fifth in the enlarged EU Suicide rates.
• Suicide rates for Males aged 25 to 29 years more than doubled in the ten years to 1999.
• The number of young women aged 15-24 years who have died by Suicide has trebled from 1990 to 2004.
• The economic cost of Suicide in Ireland has been estimated at €900m per annum.

We call on the government to:

• Implement the recommendations of the Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health & Children Seventh Report “The High Level of Suicide in Irish Society” July 2006.
• Implement the recommendations of “Reach Out, The National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention”, 2005-2014.
• Implement the recommendations of “A Vision for Change”, the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy.
• Provide clear and transparent annual reports on progress on implementation of each of the above.
• Allocate a minimum sum of €10m for each of the next five years specifically for identified measures to reduce the instance of Suicide. 
• Establish a system for comprehensive, accurate and up to date data on Suicide in Ireland.

Click here to download the Rally Mandate.