Ways in Which to Contact Your TD
Here are a few ways in which you can interact with your local TD:
- You can make an appointment at your local clinic and speak with him/her directly.
- You can email your TD using the templates provided here.
- You can print and post your letter to TD’s and Senators at Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Guidelines
If you are contacting your TD as a practitioner, please edit the letter template below to include your profession and the name of your professional association. If you have other qualifications such as a Doctor, nurse, psychologist, teacher, etc. Always include this. Also feel free to stress the number of years of expertise you have.
Sign off with your own name and phone number. Don’t forget to add your postal address and email contact at the top so that the TD knows that you are a member of his/her constituency.
Please feel free to edit the letter as you like. In fact, personalising it a little will probably help.
The first letter can be given to your patients and other interested members of the public to copy and paste and email and post if they wish.
Sample Letter for Patient/Member of the Public to Email and Post to TD’s
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you as a member of your constituency to voice my concerns about the upcoming Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018, which will return to the Committee on December 4th 2019
The wording of the bill, as it currently stands, could have serious unforeseen and unintended consequences for my access to information about health and also my access to complementary and alternative medicine.
I wish to preserve my freedom of information and choices in health care and in this regard would ask you to request an amendment to the bill to reflect this.
Here is a link to the Bill with the concerning wording highlighted.
https://camireland.org/images/Documents/The_Bill_annotated.pdf
Kind regards
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Sample Letter for CAM professional Practitioner to Email and Post to TD’s
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am contacting you as a qualified CAM practitioner and as a member of a professional association. We understand that the Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018, which will return to the Committee on December 4th 2019
The Bill as it currently stands could have serious implications for my profession and also for the broader CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) sector.
We believe that we have a valid, credible and expert view in this matter, particularly as the Bill as it stands may have profound unintended and unforeseen consequences for our qualified members.
We would be more than glad to meet with you as appropriate in this matter and would welcome the opportunity to have our concerns noted and to ask you to table an amendment as soon as possible.
Here is a link to the Bill with the concerning wording highlighted.
https://camireland.org/images/Documents/The_Bill_annotated.pdf
Kind regards
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