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Coming together for now, but virus fallout could force politicians further apart

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The emergency laws passing through the Oireachtas are extraordinary not just in their scope and scale, but in how they have prompted the political system to quickly adapt.

The wide range of provisions contained within the 36-page omnibus bill - which his essentially many laws in one - would typically be regarded as ideologically divisive and logistically or bureaucratically near impossible.

If any of them were to be implemented in normal times, they would involve intense public debate and months of deliberation in the Houses of the Oireachtas.

But instead a whole suite of them were approved after just 12 hours of Dáil debate. They will be enacted after being passed by the Seanad in what will be the final act of the current term of the

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