Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source
On that social response, we think of harm reduction as a stand-alone thing and separate to decriminalisation. Some people may think that we can either invest in harm reduction and reduce the harm of problematic drug use for individuals or bring in decriminalisation, which some believe is somewhat separate. Would Mr. Leitão da Silva agree that decriminalisation is actually a harm reduction model in and of itself and part of a suite of things and that decriminalisation is actually paramount to achieve adequate harm reduction for people?
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