As Minister for Health, I meet regularly with the Ministers of State in my Department to discuss matters of mutual interest. Such arrangements may be either formal or informal, as the circumstances require. Since the appointment in April 2015 of Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin as Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, the Minister of State and I have been in frequent communication regarding the important issues which fall within his remit. I am confident that the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, will make a strong and lasting contribution in this role and am committed to working with him to ensure an integrated policy approach to substance misuse, including a broad public health approach to tobacco and alcohol as well as other substances which are subject to control or prohibition.