Ms Niamh Eastwood:

That is absolutely correct. Work that Professor Stevens and others have done, including the European monitoring centre, has clearly shown this.

On the Deputy's point about drugs destroying communities, I understand communities have been harmed, but I think those communities are largely being affected by inequality. I agree with the Deputy that we need to invest in communities because inequality in society is one of the drivers for drug dependency. How we tackle inequality in the system should be part of a larger drugs strategy at a national level.