The need for additional resources for community based drug projects in Tallaght was this TDATF Executiveweek expressed to the drugs minister, Aodhán Ó Riordáin, with workers also stressing that 800 people were in treatment in Tallaght last year, the highest number for any area in the capital.

The Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Aodhán Ó Riordáin, who has special responsibility for the drugs strategy, visited Tallaght on Monday - during which, he met with the Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force (TDATF) and the Swan Family Resource Centre, Fettercairn, JADD [Jobstown Assisting Drug Dependency] in Jobstown and CARP (Community Addiction Response Programme) in Killinarden......