OVER €4 million is being provided in additional funding to drug and youth projects, the Government has announced.

Government funding for the battle against drug misuse has been substantially increased in 2005, Minister Noel Ahern TD announced today.

I WANT to take issue with comments made by the Labour Party spokesperson on justice, Joe Costello, TD, at the launch of his party’s submission to the mid-term review of the national drugs strategy (Irish Examiner, October 12).

IN the wake of recent headlines about junior minister Noel Ahern going to Germany to look at new services for drug users, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that those involved in existing services are expressing serious concerns to him about the Government’s commitment to support those services that are already in place.