Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Acts are in the recital of the Bill itself.

I wish to deal with the contributions of Senator Norris. I know Senator Norris takes exception to the notion of an emergency, as if an emergency were an event. We have used emergencies in the past. When Dick Spring was Tánaiste he concluded the last Emergency, which lasted from the end of the 1930s. We took emergency powers when there were very discordant happenings in the North of the island-----