Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response

Dr. Gianni Buquicchio:

I agree with the last speaker. It is very useful that the Parliament in full, or a specialised committee, can evaluate the option of the Parliament, post-legislatively but especially at the end of the crisis to assess, globally, what damage has been done. I would like to add, as I have said already, that apart from this consideration by the Parliament it is is also very useful and necessary that there would be a judicial review by the ordinary courts, or a constitutional court, where it exists. In France, for instance, a quick check of some measures has been done by the Conseil d'Etat, the highest administrative court in France, or even by the constitutional court concerned. These checks and controls and scrutiny are very useful and, I would say, indispensable.