Labhrás Ó Murchú (Fianna Fail)

I wish to take up Senator Fitzgerald's point on the abuse of drugs. There is no doubt about it being a malignancy, having reached serious proportions. Young lives are lost or harmed, in many instances beyond repair. It is important that the State focuses on this issue. When the State was under threat in previous years, the Government called in sections of the media, for example, and briefed them on the dangers.

Recently, I watched several television programmes. Seeing celebrities glamorising drug-taking in a flippant and subtle manner was disturbing.