LIMERICK’S public representatives are to get special training in how to deal with calls from people who are feeling suicidal.
Members of the city and county council’s emergency services committee heard that the training is being arranged as part of the local authority’s suicide strategy.
Councillors attending a meeting at City Hall this week were told that there are three main elements to the current strategy.
The first item is to compile a directory of current services for the promotion and maintenance of mental health.
Next on the strategy’s agenda is consideration of networking events to see how the council and the HSE might poll resources in the area of mental health suicide prevention.
And the third part of the plan is that elected members would have a two-hour talk from the HSE on how to deal with calls from, or encounters with, people who express suicidal thoughts.
