Mr. Shane Hamilton:

Regarding coming into 1 January, the stream of data and information that we are basing a public health response on will dry up come January. There will be no information available to respond and get out ahead of this. There are multiples out there. There is only a self-funded outreach programme able to collate data on how many vulnerable individuals are sharing paraphernalia in this community. We will not have that data so the public health response will be blind. We talk about the growth of populations in Tallaght. It is not dispersed equally over the huge size of Tallaght; it is in communities already challenged with multiple social issues. That is where crack cocaine is presenting itself and we will see more of this.