Letter from UCC Students' Union to be raised in the Dáil
The strongly worded letter was written the union's Welfare Officer.
A newly elected Sinn Fein TD is to raise details of an open letter written by UCC's Welfare Officer to the Health Minister in the Dail next week.
Pat Buckley, who is a co-founder of the East Cork based suicide support group, Let’s Get Together, is raising the issue of suicide and self harm and is to highlight Katie Quinlan's strongly worded letter.
Katie wrote to the Health Minister condemning his proposal to slash €12 million from the mental health budget this year accusing him of disregarding a significant portion of the population in one swift cruel move.
Speaking on the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM Katie explained what drove her to write such an impassioned letter:
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