I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 and 178 together.
The provision of funding for drug misuse related services in the Eastern Health Board area is a matter for the Eastern Health Board in the first instance. The Eastern Health Board, in line with the ministerial task force recommendations on measures to reduce the demand for drugs, in conjunction with voluntary agencies and community groups, provides education and prevention programmes and services aimed at delivering advice and harm minimisation programmes to drug misusers. The board provides direct funding to a number of organisations, including Urrús, which provide education and training modules on drug misuse, addiction and community responses. Thirty thousand pounds was granted by the health board to Urrús in 1996 and also in 1997 as 25 per cent matching support for a project funded by the EU HORIZON programme.