Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I am sorry, but we lost the connection with the committee room for a few seconds. I thank the two witnesses for attending and being of assistance to the committee today. The rule of law and its operation are always important and never more so than when citizens are in real danger from any source, be it an external threat or what we have all experienced in the last number of months. While this seems like a step to the side for the work of this committee, which has been focusing on sectoral and Government responses to the management of the pandemic here, it is incredibly important that we are talking about the rule of law and the maintenance and respect for the rule of law as well as how we behave predictably as a nation and as nations together based on that.

I have a number of specific questions for Dr. Buquicchio. I hope I am pronouncing his name correctly.