Health Minister Patrice Minors warned yesterday she will be making ?tough decisions? which could see funding frozen for drug rehabilitation agencies.

And she warned she would not tolerate top heavy agencies which paid staff handsomely and left nothing left for desperately needed help programmes.

She said she condemned allegations that Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) was a fraud, although she did not specify who made the allegation.

She told MPs yesterday: ?As a result of some concerns I have with the giving of grants by the Ministry and their subsequent use, I have initiated a review of the funding of agencies in this category to ensure proper expenditure of the public?s funds.

?It may well be that in the coming months, the community may be surprised at some of the tough decisions that have to be made concerning grants and funding.

?It may well be that the noise you hear from some former service providers in the ATI is directly related to the fact that this insistence on accountability is uncomfortable and undesired.

?I am prepared to indicate to this House that so seriously do I take the expenditure of public funds that I am prepared to withhold funding pending any investigation into the activities of any organisation that reasonably warrants it. ?I cannot tolerate and will not tolerate the reference to ATI as a fraud, nor can I tolerate allegations of insufficiency of government grants in cases where, for example, the grant is used mainly for the salaries of those in a top heavy organisation who after paying themselves, have nothing left to fund the much needed programmes for which this public money is intended.?

Ms Minors pleased recent graduates of the Drug Court, which had a 100 percent success record.

She singled out one participant who set himself up as a painting contractor and took on fellow members of the Drug Court which had proved a great success.