AS a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, I have been tasked with producing a report on ‘What is required to develop the counties along the west coast of Ireland, both in economic and social terms’.

THE launch of the National Drugs Awareness Strategy has to be welcomed, as does the media coverage that has accompanied it. However, I feel the media may be arriving a little late to the issue.