John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. I acknowledge the allocation last week announced by the Minister of State in regard to dealing with crack cocaine. It is rolling funding, which is very much appreciated by the community I represent and by the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force, the board of which I sit on along with the chairman of this committee.

In the short available to me, I want to focus on the Tallaght piece. The Minister of State will be familiar with the report the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force produced in terms of the landscape of substance misuse and its impact on the communities of that task force. In the Dáil debate on this issue, the four Deputies representing the area, who sit on the drug task force, made a contribution. There is always a danger of stigmatisation of a whole community. Tallaght is made up of such a blend and mix of communities. I want to focus on the part of the community that is especially challenged.

If I told the Minister of State that in 2020, the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force was allocated funding of approximately €1.2 million and that in 2010, it received approximately €1.3 million, what would his response be?