The current emergency powers are due to lapse in January and February 2022. Image: Alamy Stock Photo The current emergency powers are due to lapse in January and February 2022. Image: Alamy Stock Photo LEGISLATION TO COMBINE all the emergency Covid-19 powers to government – including mask wearing and Covid passes – is to be drafted following Cabinet approval this afternoon.
The Government spokesperson confirmed that it is intended to replace these pieces of legislation “with one piece of primary legislation, a single act, to be passed by the Oireachtas by December 16 2021″. Given that the minister is now restricted in extending the regulations beyond February under the current legal framework, government sources said the new law will permit two date extensions.
Earlier this month, the government extended the emergency measures, such as the continued requirement for wearing face coverings in certain settings, the use of the Covid pass and other measures relating to the hospitality and events sectors until February 2022.
The people want the Government gone 😒
Can the people not have a say in this? DonnellyStephen enough is enough, if people want to have a bite to eat and a pint let them without being treated like outcasts! This is discrimination and nothing else
Good enough. I’m interested in seeing what they come up with. We still haven’t recovered from the damaged inflicted on us by the disrupters last Christmas. If the selfish and the morons and the hedonists won’t take responsibility, we need to be safe from them.
And so the control continues, people will live to regret leaving this corrupt government rule their lives. What has this country become ? The people have been brainwashed and now with this new sneaky tactic to control your lives go back to 1930s era.
This bill must not be voted for People must take to the streets to show THIS GOVERNMENT WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH and these draconian laws are against our civil rights
Not democracy anymore
😂😂 I think the tide is finally turning, there’s a few upset people asking questions tonight, a few lockdown lovers and mask zealots.. fingers crossed the previously blind sheep are waking up.