Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will not necessarily be sending a ship to Somalia. What is being examined is whether we would send members of the Naval Service to perhaps engage with others who are there. I do not know whether it will occur but it is being explored.

With regard to the drugs strategy, the Commission will make a presentation at the meeting I mentioned, which will begin on 6 December, on the strategy to run from 2013 to 2020.

The Council will then be asked to adopt the draft EU drugs strategy. To follow, work will be undertaken to adopt it, commencing with the provision of an action plan that will seek to ensure specific tasks are undertaken to underpin the aims of and implement the strategy. Consideration of the action plan will be a feature of the Irish Presidency. It will land on our laps.

The issue of missing persons was raised at one of the European meetings I was at some time ago. No specific measure has been proposed by the Commission to deal with it at present.