Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Obviously, Dr. Buquicchio has gone through the different parliamentary and executive responses in different parts of Europe. Our own research in this Parliament indicates that the real difficulty has been the voting arrangements in different parliaments. Parliaments have come up with different solutions for ways of meeting and for scrutinising executive decisions in the management of the pandemic but the main difficulty has been with voting. Dr. Buquicchio referred in his statement to taking the long view and the luxury of being in the position of being able to take a long, systemic view on how to plan for these things over time. Is that correct? Is that what he is advising parliaments to do now in the context of the next pandemic or the next big issue that might disrupt parliamentary scrutiny?