Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)

On the proposed campaign, will the Minister of State consider including all national sports organisations and holding a national seminar to highlight an alternative to drugs?

Education campaigns in schools are vitally important as well as research. In the past several days, we have learned of various new mixes of drugs and alcohol. Research into these will have to be conducted and information given to the various bodies concerned.

In the drugs taskforce for Kildare South, there is one taskforce employee to 54,000 people. In other areas, such as the south east, it is one to 17,000 of the population. This is out of sync given the geographical position of County Kildare to the greater Dublin area. The south east should not match such a determination to that extent.

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