Drug task force ‘can’t take further budget cut’

The Government has been called on not to implement further swingeing cuts on drug groups in Cork City, which has already lost eight such projects and is facing a feared heroin resurgence.

The Drugs Initiative fund within the Department of Health was cut in Budget 2014 from €29.95m in 2013 to €27.95m, a drop of 7%.

But the country’s local and regional drug task forces do not yet know how this will translate to their budgets.