Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
On that point, we have been examining all of the different changes and nuances in this committee. The three-week period is important. It takes two weeks potentially for symptoms to show, which needs to be borne in mind as the economy opens up and people behave differently. It also takes that long just to get the evidence. There is then a very short window for making decisions, implementing them in whatever form is appropriate and managing to communicate them before they take effect again. It is a difficult, practical problem because the intent is always to try to keep people as safe as possible and society as open as possible.
My question is on the court processes from the perspective of the Law Society and the Bar Council. I congratulated Ms McNally on her election as chair of the Bar Council, the second appointment since 1979, but Ms O'Boyle-----
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