Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The point has been made about funding for the area. Mr. Hamilton spoke about how staff were upskilled and the best of staff being within the front-line services. A bit like the funding the drugs task force does not get, is it similar with community-based projects in that many of the workers are section 39 workers and have not had a rise in ten years? Is there a problem? It probably reflects the concern Ms Quigley had earlier about the community being written out of the drugs strategy. Are the projects losing key personnel to private projects and institutions because of the funding issue?