Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Apologies, I will not be around for the second round because I will be speaking in the Dáil. I have to go very shortly. I just want to ask about that €500,000 that Ms Hill spoke about. Is she seriously saying that figure is to be spread between all of the task forces? It seems incredible. The other aspect of that, as I understand it, is that the figure is to be also shared over two cohorts in relation to cocaine use. Those are the crack cocaine cohort and the night-time economy cohort. These are two very different cohorts of people, in their drug use. Is that the case? As a national response to the widespread use of cocaine of all sorts, the figure is unbelievably small. Can Ms Hill confirm that that is the case? Even within the narrow confines of the €500,000, what are the proposals about how it would be shared?