Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response
Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Does the witness have a concern about the impact there will be when people of power, influence or privilege, or whatever way one wishes to put it, decide in their heads at a certain point that they are not going to obey laws or regulations? In particular, is he concerned that whatever valid questions there are, and there are many with regard to the legislative framework on which the response to Covid-19 is based, they can be subverted by elements in society that have no interest in democracy, such as far-right elements, conspiratorial elements and anti-health elements? Does he have any concern that actions such as his and the actions of others are lost and are then corrupted by those forces?
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