Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is deeply worrying in the community. Over the past couple of years, I have attended a number of meetings with Citywide and community representatives on the respect that people are not getting in the interaction with and implementation of the national drugs strategy. I commend the Citywide drugs crisis campaign. I know a call has gone out for participants in the provision of level 5 training for community representatives on local drugs task forces. That is a really good move. I encourage anybody who has an interest in that and wants to help, support and get involved in that to contact Citywide and do its course. It will be over a 12-week period for one morning per week. The objectives of the course are really important and will help to strengthen drugs task forces and the voice of the community in those task forces. I hope that permeates right up to the very top, including the national drugs strategy implementation group, which is extremely important.

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