John Ellis (Fianna Fail)

Problems concerning drugs were mentioned earlier. We are all well aware of the incidents that occurred at the weekend. On a previous occasion I raised the matter of heroin and the fact that 92% of it comes from Afghanistan. In light of the fact the presidential situation has been clarified and President Hamid Karzai has been installed, could we ask the Americans to make it a condition of their significant investment in rebuilding Afghanistan that the poppy industry be put to an end and poppy fields be sprayed as a way of trying to put a stop to global heroin use? This would make a greater contribution than anything else.