Mr. Shane Hamilton:

Going back to Deputy Hourigan's response, how will we know if this goes unchecked? It will be visible from the statutory bodies. Our colleagues in the statutory agencies will be the indicators of this. We will see metrics through increased numbers of displaced people moving into homelessness. There will be more visibility of that. More homes will be lost. Public health issues will increase. We will definitely see a rise in blood borne viruses. We will see more children in care. The visibility of this within the community will increase as well. We can guarantee this. We looked at a very small sample of two evenings a week since September, and we have already encountered multiple individuals who we have not been in contact with before. We will have to be sensitive to this. It was a small sample of 12 weeks. We have to be cognisant of how big this issue is out there; it could be a sleeping giant. Reflecting on Fintan O'Toole's articles, having Kitty Holland coming out with us and going back to the Rabbitte report, I find it hard to say anything different than has not been said already. The infrastructure might not be equipped to manage this without real reflection on the values of what we want to achieve from a drugs strategy. The Government's position has to be established and what it wants community projects to achieve. We are positioned to do it, but we need to be able to do it.