Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Civil Liberties during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discussion

Ms Anne Marie McMahon:

I will make a brief point about our response. From the outset of the pandemic we have been very conscious of the challenges the pandemic, and then the regulations, brought to bear on everybody. That is why our graduated response, using the four Es as our common theme in our overriding strategy, has worked well for us. Our approach to enforcement has been very much light touch in that context. Working our way through the four Es gave those we interacted with the opportunity to come into compliance, thereby minimising the numbers against whom we had to use the fourth E, the enforcement piece.

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