Motion or amendment: Drug Dealing Sentencing - Amendment 1
Motion or amendment by Mr Doug Beattie MC on .
- MLA
- Mr Doug Beattie MC
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 17 April 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Drug Dealing Sentencing”
- Heading
- Drug Dealing Sentencing - Amendment 1
- Assembly identifier
- Document 480448
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Drug Dealing Sentencing - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘families and communities;’ and insert: ‘further notes that paramilitary groups have morphed into organised crime gangs that control the illegal drugs trade in Northern Ireland; supports the campaign for Jasmin’s Law to secure accountability for those who profit from the sale of drugs working alongside the Executive’s Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime Programme; and calls on the Minister of Justice to address sentencing via a Sentencing Council for those convicted of drug supply offences within the Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill, prioritising measures that ensure penalties fully reflect the harm and devastation caused by those who are dealing illegal drugs, act as a meaningful deterrent and demonstrate that those who devastate lives and profit from addiction will face consequences proportionate to the gravity of their crimes.
137 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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