Mr. Fearghal Connolly:

On how to put messaging out there for people, we have had fairly comprehensive educational programmes in schools to equip children with the knowledge around drug use, and that needs to continue. The real preventative strategy that we need, which is what is being talked about here this morning, relates to the infrastructure in a community like ours. It lacks a youth centre, young children's facilities and targeted outreach for young people. It has a youth centre that is lying empty. All of these things are contributing to a lack of will in a community like ours to get proper infrastructure, be it youth services or children's services.

At the moment, an increased number of young to middle-aged women are increasingly involved in the crack cocaine programme. It is a very specific one. Ms Kelly has been working with 13 of those women. We have a programme ready to be delivered but we cannot get the funding. This is the reality for community projects. The problem is getting worse, unfortunately, particularly in Donore Avenue, where we will have an expanding community. If we are not able to deal with what we have at the moment, which does not take many resources, with an increased population - possibly an additional 5,000 with these developments in the next couple of years - we will be back to facing an epidemic crisis like the one we faced in the eighties.