Legal experts at Trinity College Dublin have called on the Government to clarify its relationship with the National Public Health Emergency Team and to explain the decision-making process for public health restrictions.
In a report examining decisions made during the pandemic, the Covid-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory at Trinity pinpoint a significant lack of transparency in many key decisions made by Government.
The report's authors found that at various points throughout the pandemic, there were unclear lines of accountability when it came to Government decision-making.
The general lack of transparency, they found, ranged from who actually made key decisions to whether certain public health measures were legally enforceable.