Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2014
287. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda have the facility to trace a person's whereabouts through their mobile account (details supplied) account specifically relating to a person with an outstanding European arrest warrant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45221/14]
View answerUnder the provisions of the European Arrest Warrant Act, as amended, the High Court is the executing judicial authority in the State. The Minister's function, in relation to a warrant received from another Member State, is to apply or cause an application to be made to the High Court for endorsement of the warrant. Once the warrant is endorsed, it falls to the Garda authorities to arrest the subject of the warrant and bring him/her before the High Court.
The Garda authorities use all means available to them under the law, and cooperate with their counterparts in other jurisdictions, in tracing those who are the subjects of such warrants and I do not consider it appropriate to disclose operational arrangements in this regard.
