Taoiseach Micheál Martin (second left), Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar (second left),Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly (left) and Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr.Ronan Glynn at a Post Cabinet Press Briefing in Dublin Castle, Dublin 2. last month
This morning.
The Government “deliberately obfuscated the line” between Covid-19 guidelines and legal requirements to maximise compliance, an Oireachtas committee will be told today.
Via The Irish Times:
The Law Society, the representative association for solicitors, will say there is a need for clearer communications on restrictions.
It will say “confusion and resentment arose due to the lack of clarity as to what the rules were, whether they were legally binding or merely guidance, how they applied in different situations, and whether they were consistently enforced”.
…The Irish Council for Civil Liberties will say many regulations were not published in advance of coming into force, and were difficult to find even after being signed by a Minister.
“We consider that at times the Government deliberately obfuscated the line between what was a legal requirement and what was a guideline in order to ensure the widest compliance with the guidelines. [We consider] this approach to be unacceptable.”
Tell us something we don’t know.
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Is this why a judge went to a golf dinner? I see another excuse
Gemma O Doherty’s father was , to the best of my knowledge a very responsible pharmacist. Maybe, he should have gone into teaching.!