nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210317-154047-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210317s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210317-154047-0 doi eng 342 23 Doyle, Oran Author aut Pandemic Response as Accentuation of Existing Characteristics: Vague Requirements and Executive Dominance in Ireland Doyle, Oran Verfassungsblog 2021-03-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In Ireland, it is not constitutionally permissible to declare an emergency in response to COVID-19. The legal response, therefore, has been mounted within the normal constitutional framework. This has consisted of five primary statutes that (a) empower the Minister for Health to make regulations (secondary legislation) imposing restrictions to control the pandemic and (b) establish enforcement powers that the Minister for Health can attach to particular restrictions. By early March 2021, the Minister had made 74 sets of regulations imposing restrictions. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Ireland Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/pandemic-response-as-accentuation-of-existing-characteristics-vague-requirements-and-executive-dominance-in-ireland/ raw object