4 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the allocation by his Department to suicide prevention programmes in 2000 and 2001 was 8.2% of the allocation to road safety, excluding expenditure by the Garda on enforcing traffic laws, despite the fact that more died by suicide than by road accidents; the reason there was a substantial reduction in expenditure on suicide prevention programmes in 2001 and 2002 in comparison with 2000; and his views on whether the Government is seriously ignoring the suicide crisis. [23107/02]

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4 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the allocation by his Department to suicide prevention programmes in 2000 and 2001 was 8.2% of the allocation to road safety, excluding expenditure by the Garda on enforcing traffic laws, despite the fact that more died by suicide than by road accidents; the reason there was a substantial reduction in expenditure on suicide prevention programmes in 2001 and 2002 in comparison with 2000; and his views on whether the Government is seriously ignoring the suicide crisis. [23107/02]

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