This is a template to inform your TD that you support the Labour Party’s motion on decriminalisation of drugs. Please use it as the basis to communicate with your TD.
Do remember to put in your TD’s name, your home town and your own name (the pink bits).
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Dear Deputy (last name),
I am writing to you as a constituent from (x Town), regarding The Labour Party’s Decriminalisation Motion, which is to be a free vote in the Dáil on Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00am.
I am asking you to vote in favour of this motion in its original form.
As you may be aware, many people who use drugs face many negative social and economic implications. Following Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug use, acquisition, and possession for personal use in 2001, they saw positive outcomes in terms of public health, harm reduction, and otherwise unnecessary prosecutions.
This bill specifically includes many positive provisions –
- Community based harm reduction services
- Addressing disease transmission and overdoses
- Introducing supervised injection facilities
- A commitment to a client centred and evidence-based recovery programme
I am urging you to support this motion in its current form to ensure that drug use response can adopt a health-focused approach.
Is mise le meas,
YOUR NAME
Seo teimpléad chun do Theachta Dála a chur in iúl go dtacaíonn tú le rún Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre maidir le díchoiriúlú drugaí. Bain úsáid as mar bhunús le cumarsáid a dhéanamh le do Theachta Dála.
Cuimhnigh ainm do Theachta Dála, do bhaile dúchais agus d’ainm féin (na codanna bándearga) a chur isteach.
Is féidir leat do Theachta Dála a fháil anseo
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A Theachta Dála (sloinne),
Táim ag scríobh chugat mar thoghthóir ó (x Baile), maidir le Rún Díchoiriúlú Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre, atá le bheith ina vóta saor in aisce sa Dáil Dé Céadaoin, 5 Samhain ag 10:00am.
Táim ag iarraidh ort vótáil i bhfabhar an rúin seo ina fhoirm bhunaidh.
Mar is eol duit b’fhéidir, bíonn go leor impleachtaí sóisialta agus eacnamaíocha diúltacha os comhair go leor daoine a úsáideann drugaí. Tar éis dhíchoiriúlú úsáide, fáil agus seilbhe drugaí le haghaidh úsáide pearsanta ag an bPortaingéil in 2001, chonaic siad torthaí dearfacha i dtéarmaí sláinte poiblí, laghdú díobhála, agus ionchúisimh neamhriachtanacha eile. Tá go leor forálacha dearfacha sa bhille seo go sonrach –
- Seirbhísí laghdaithe díobhála atá bunaithe sa phobal
- Aghaidh a thabhairt ar tharchur galair agus ar ródháileoga
- Áiseanna insteallta faoi mhaoirseacht a thabhairt isteach
- Tiomantas do chlár téarnaimh atá dírithe ar an gcliant agus atá bunaithe ar fhianaise
Táim ag impí ort tacú leis an rún seo ina fhoirm reatha chun a chinntiú gur féidir le freagairt d’úsáid drugaí cur chuige atá dírithe ar an tsláinte a ghlacadh.
Is mise le meas,
D’AINM