Mr. John Paul Collins:

On top of that, in terms of the national drugs strategy team, the first piece of national research on substance misuse in the Traveller community was in 2006. As Pavee Point, the national representative organisation, we sat down with the team at the time to talk about the recommendations that came from the research. Over 12 months, we developed an implementation plan for the recommendations that came out of the strategy. Unfortunately, then, the national drugs strategy team was pulled. The fundamental difference now is that collective community response just does not exist and has not existed for the past ten or 12 years in fairness. There was a time, a dreamtime I would also say, that we can compare with the structures we have now, which are ineffective.