, head of the National Office for Suicide Prevention, told the committee on issues affecting the Traveller community that the ethnic background of a person found to have died by suicide is not recorded at inquests, making it impossible to know with certainty suicide rates among minority groups.
Though studies showing the Traveller community’s suicide rate to be six times that of the settled community were “widely accepted as accurate”, it was “difficult to assess” exact rates. “Unfortunately the data provided by the CSO [on suicide] does not capture a wide range of information including ethnicities [as it relies on coroners’ data].
“That’s a big conversation . . . Internationally there is a move to have those discussions with the coroners and indeed [about] how we can target specific data from coroners’ reports,” he said.
And homicides and crime. Let’s record the ethnicity of the perpetrators too. Why not?
And you should record the ethnicity of the babies being aborted. Every other country in the world records it.
Do they not do so anyway? Surely coroners reports have more information than cause of death?
They should probably record the ethnicity of everyone who dies. I don't see why they wouldn't do it anyway. It would help people spot trends in deaths. I assume the reason they don't is because Ireland has traditionally been mostly ethnically homogeneous (excluding tracellers).
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