Drugs strategy at stake as McCabe resigns

IMPLEMENTATION of the Government’s national drugs strategy is being threatened by the actions of the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health, it was claimed yesterday.

The chairman of the National Drugs Strategy Team (NDST) subcommittee on the Local Drug Task Forces (LDTFs), Fergus McCabe, said he resigned after repeatedly raising the lack of a representative with the HSE.

“This continued on for far too long a period. I signalled I wasn’t happy again and again, and then I set a deadline for my resignation unless they responded. There was no response.”