Many hard-pressed drug projects will not survive the latest cuts to funding following the budget, according to community groups. The Department of Health’s Drugs Initiative budget has been cut by 5%, bringing total funding from €31.5m to €29.9m.
Joan Byrne of Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign said funding under the initiative has fallen 34% since 2008. “If the 5% cut is implemented, some projects won’t survive, particularly the smaller projects,” said Ms Byrne.
She said larger projects were also under pressure. “Take a project with a half a million [euro] budget, that’s €25,000 [to be cut], that’s a worker gone, because there is nowhere left to cut.”
Source: breakingnews.ie
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