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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2001-11-29/2/
29 Nov 2001 - Amendment No. 4 inserts a new subsection (2) in section 2 of the Bill....The new subsection (2) follows the equivalent provisions in section 3 of the Extradition Act, 1965, section...1(4) of the 1987 terrorism Act and section 1(2) of the Extradition (Amendment) Act, 1994, that is, the...Bill applies to offences whenever committed....However, the Bill does not affect cases already decided where extradition was sought but refused on the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/4/
15 Jan 1987 - apart from Northern Ireland entirely, about the fact that there is one country, a signatory to this convention...What this raises for me is, first of all, the question of whether this convention really can be accepted...in its present terms but also the possibility of the convention being extended to other countries....We have no such guarantees in the case of one signatory of this convention with whom apparently we have...now got an extradition agreement.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1999-12-14/5/
14 Dec 1999 - For example, in the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987, a certificate...for the designation by the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the states which are party to a particular convention...where such a provision is necessary for the purposes of the particular convention.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/10/
15 Jan 1987 - I say that, bearing in mind the fact that there are provisions in the Bill before us that establish new...on Extradition....We could have said when we ratified that convention that we will not extradite Irish nationals....law and in relation to the promotion of international co-operation to combat terrorism in the years...since that extradition convention was adopted.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/23/
16 Dec 1986 - The reason is that it exactly reflects Article 6 of the 1957 European Convention on Extradition....The system in several other continental European countries is not that different....in enacting this legislation to act in that way, as we suggest, by virtue of Article 6 of the 1957 Convention...with any of our international obligations because it is entirely in accordance with Article 6 of the Convention...If we do what is suggested in the amendment we will not be going a quarter as far as many of our European
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-03-24/3/
24 Mar 1994 - The Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987, which is the subject...of some key amendments in this Bill, was introduced towards the end of 1986 to give effect to the European...Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism....The key objective of that Convention was to assist in the suppression of terrorism by complementing and...Unfortunately, the 1986 Bill which was subsequently known as the Extradition Act, 1987, was badly drafted
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-17/28/
17 Dec 2003 - Regarding this framework decision, the law on extradition between Ireland and the United Kingdom, which...It sought to avoid the extradition for political offences question by conferring on the Irish courts...At that stage under the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, the political offence exception...to extradition was narrowed down very considerably....It might be that in certain cases, a case could be made that it would be contrary to the European Convention
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-12/3/
12 Dec 1986 - If the Bill is passed in its present form we will have extradition on demand and we will be at the mercy...Are we going to allow the extradition of Irish nationals to satisfy the whims of another jurisdiction...on prima facie evidence that the person sought will stand trial on a charge related to international terrorism...commitment and desire to co-operate with neighbouring nations in helping to stamp out international terrorism...It records in an important international convention Ireland's constitutional position protecting civil
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-02-05/16/
5 Feb 2003 - decision and the UN convention on terrorism which is implemented in this Bill....In implementing the provisions of the UN convention, this Bill will create a new offence under Irish...The remarkable speed with which the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism has...The convention obliges state parties to prosecute offenders or to extradite them to the parties which...for suppressing the financing of terrorism.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-12-04/3/
4 Dec 1987 - the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act which had a time limit put...Convention dealing with terrorism at European level....Every day of the week we are conscious of the amount of European terrorism that goes on....Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism....That was the reason we put a time limit on the original Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-12-04/5/
4 Dec 1987 - The Bill before the House is a justifiable and sensible measure....terrorism....Since 1 December we have allowed the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism Act, 1987 to...Why has the European Convention on Terrorism, which is now part of our domestic law, become necessary...of the European Convention was delayed until 1 December.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-03-24/3/
24 Mar 1994 - Gilliland, reported in the 1986 volume of the Irish Law Reports Monthly , page 357, the Supreme Court...(European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987....For a number of reasons that Act followed the language of the European Convention on the Suppression...The European Convention on Extradition was drafted in the 1950s while the European Convention on the...Suppression of Terrorism was drafted in the 1970s.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/7/
18 Dec 2003 - Further amendments to Part 4 of the Bill, amending existing extradition laws, were also accepted in the...the Minster for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, will in future make orders under section 8 of the Extradition...As I stated, a new section was inserted providing for the repeal of Part III of the Extradition Act 1965...This arises since the European arrest warrant replaces all existing extradition arrangements, including
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-12-14/11/
14 Dec 2001 - An Ceann Comhairle Seanad Éireann has passed the Extradition (European Union Conventions) Bill, 2001..., without amendment, and the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Bill, 2001, without amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-03-24/3/
24 Mar 1994 - The most relevant of these provisions are contained in the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression...by section 8 of the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987....Convention on the Suppression of terrorism) Act, 1987 dealing with the political offence exception....That Act followed, to a large degree, the approach taken in the European Terrorism Convention and section...Suppression of Terrorism.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-10/29/
10 Dec 1986 - Committee Stage ordered for Thursday, 11 December 1986.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-12-12/13/
12 Dec 2001 - It is late in the day to be discussing extradition....No doubt this is the first of his package of proposals in dealing with terrorism....They arise from the European conventions of 1995 and 1996....He has not given us any reason five and six years after the conventions were passed they are now being...said that it is also being provided in relation to the United Kingdom and other member states of the European
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-06-11/5/
11 Jun 1975 - an extradition treaty or who are parties to the European Convention of Extradition and Ireland is a...party to this convention....Section 14 of the Extradition Act provides that extradition shall not be granted where the person involved...Under this Bill an Irish citizen who hijacked a plane flying between two countries outside the jurisdiction...We have to try him here under this Bill for that crime.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-12-06/10/
6 Dec 2001 - on the Suppression of Terrorism of 27 January 1977 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘European Convention...as in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, drug trafficking...Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism. 3....Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism remain unaffected. 4....Reservations made pursuant to Article 13 of the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism shall
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-01/22/
1 Dec 1987 - Jacob Could we, as has been suggested, have seriously considered not ratifying the European Convention...on the Suppression of Terrorism?...The correct course is to combine the ratification of the European Convention with the safeguarding measures...proposed in the Bill....for non-extraditable offences.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-12-06/3/
6 Dec 2001 - Is the proposal for dealing with No. 49 – the conclusion of Report and Final Stages of the Extradition...(European Union Conventions) Bill, 2001 – agreed?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/29/
17 Dec 1986 - Deputy McCreevy and the Fianna Fáil Party have said they support the principle of this Bill....The essential function of this Bill is to clarify the scope of a political offence, but what Deputy McCreevy...we should not change the scope of the political offence, let him say so, and then he is opposing the Bill...It is completely wrong of Deputy McCreevy to pretend that this Bill removes the possibility of a refusal...of extradition on the grounds that an offence is political.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-04/19/
4 Dec 1986 - There was a different procedure in relation to us but with every other country with which they have extradition...The UK Government expect us to have some kind of draconian measure in relation to extradition — I realise...We will be dealing with 21 or more European countries who are members of the Council of Europe....When the extradition of a person is sought the system of justice in the requesting country and the chances
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/25/
16 Dec 1986 - Tomás Mac Giolla It would not apply to proceedings under this Bill....All that would be required to insert in the Bill to ensure that the provisions of the 1965 Act would...If that is in the extradition proceedings, then section 22 applies, which would mean that extradition...That is all anyone is asking, that within this Bill there would be a requirement for production by the...There should be a provision in the Bill requiring the production of evidence as to the commission of
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/4/
15 Jan 1987 - Of course a request for extradition or a request in the case of Northern Ireland or Britain can be made...made by a court on foot of a claim that the offence was a political offence only after a request for extradition...Nevertheless if, as I hope we will do, we pass this Bill, we are saying that we will never regard certain...that person, we should extradite him because we have said what we believe about that kind of act....If there was a person in another convention country whom we suspected of having carried out an act of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/29/
17 Dec 1986 - again on foot of another extradition warrant....This Bill redefines a political offence....In 1965 we were not prepared to extradite a person who alleged that he was being extradited for a political...said, the Minister is introducing a red herring to distract attention from the shortcomings of this Bill...I want it to be clear that under this Bill people can be brought to court again, although extradition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-11/21/
11 Dec 1986 - provision in our Constitution, which is the bulwark of our rights might be deemed to be ultra vires the Convention...position to say that no provision of our Constitution, at anytime, can be overridden under the Single European...Act by the European Convention on Human Rights?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2004-06-23/9/
23 Jun 2004 - (ii) had the person's extradition been sought, his or her extradition would not be prohibited under the...Extradition Acts 1965 to 2001 (other than section 10(1) or 10(1A) (inserted by section 11(a) of the...Extradition (European Union Conventions) Act 2001) of the Extradition Act 1965).”.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-10/29/
10 Dec 1986 - The Dáil adjourned at 11.30 p.m. until 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, 11 December 1986.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-04/4/
4 Dec 1986 - to take that line on this occasion we might as well not bother our heads with the Bill at all....we would, because of that special circumstance, be making nonsense of the whole attempt to join this convention...authorities on both sides of the Border is that, for one reason or another, it is not an adequate means of suppressing...terrorism....Lenihan as "extradition by the back door".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-06-09/5/
9 Jun 1988 - Flynn) I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Air Navigation and Transport Bill,...1987, that it has power to make provision in the Bill for the implementation of the 1988 Montreal Protocol...to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation done at...on 23rd September, 1971, and the amendment of the Hire-Purchase Act, 1946, and the Free Ports Act, 1986
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-11/21/
11 Dec 1986 - Nor do I appreciate what he has said just now — that time has moved on, this is 1986, and the situation...That is why I want to see this Bill not passed, so that we do not adopt the Single European Act until
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/7/
18 Dec 2003 - O'Dea): I am pleased to present to this House today the European Arrest Warrant Bill 2003 which gives..., replace, as and from 1 January 2004, the existing extradition arrangements between Ireland and other...member states of the European Union....Before I come to deal with the provisions of the Bill, I wish to set out the background to the adoption...to the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-01-28/3/
28 Jan 1988 - would like to establish once and for all when we will get to the next stage of the Adoption (No. 2) Bill...I would also like to ask the Leader of the House about Item No. 13 which is the Extradition (European...Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill....them, we extradite them with proper evidence against them....We must have confidence in the legal system to which we are extraditing them and we must also be confident
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/29/
17 Dec 1986 - Are we concerned about extradition and about this section 1 and its implications for its own sake, or...the agreement that was signed there, or are we, as the Minister said, merely removing obstacles to extradition...ask for the umpteenth time how do the British authorities under their laws treat their citizens whose extradition...we request as against how we propose in this Bill to treat our citizens whose extradition is requested
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/23/
16 Dec 1986 - In the context of the European Convention on Terrorism, we are looking at something extra....the members of the Council of Europe wanted some means of dealing with the new forms of international terrorism
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_and_equality/2019-02-27/3/
27 Feb 2019 - Turning to Part 13 in the first instance, the Bill provides for two amendments to the Extradition Act...The optimal solution identified by my Department is to apply the 1957 European Convention on Extradition...The provisions of the convention are given effect by Part II of the Extradition Act 1965....While the extradition procedure under the convention is not as effective or as efficient as that of the...provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Extradition, extradition of an Irish citizen will
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-12/3/
12 Dec 1986 - Carey Deputy Hyland went further and said that Fianna Fáil had views on extradition in the national...interest and that they did not concur with the views expressed by the Minister in the Bill....I assume, then, that the view on the other side of the House is that this Bill is not consistent with
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-12-12/13/
12 Dec 2001 - In effect, it is a Bill proposing to legislate for two conventions, the 1995 European Union convention...on extradition and the 1996 convention on extradition between member states of the European Union....outside the European Union but were resident or harboured in the European Union, what does the Minister...I welcome the fact that section 13 of the Bill lifts the absolute bar on extradition for revenue offences...In general, the Bill is welcome.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1994-03-24/3/
24 Mar 1994 - It brings Irish extradition procedures in line with those existing between our colleagues in the European...However, under section 11 of the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act...The European Convention on Human Rights is one of the council's most important conventions....I welcome that the Bill seeks to close the loophole in the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression...It is surprising that the flaw in the legislation was not anticipated in 1986.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-05-14/152/
14 May 1996 - A General Scheme of a Bill necessary to give effect to the Convention is being prepared....However, there are still a number of issues remaining to be resolved at European level before the Convention...Convention on the Protection of the European Communities' Financial interests....It is not yet possible to give a precise estimate of when a General Scheme of an Extradition Bill which...methods of transmitting extradition requests.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/7/
18 Dec 2003 - I am satisfied this Bill represents a major development in our relations with other member states of...the European Union and a major step forward in our extradition arrangements.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-06-11/4/
11 Jun 1975 - The Bill involves adherence to an international convention....It is time that the countries of Europe, because of the growing problem of terrorism that they have,...countries to see if the Extradition Convention should be amended....The Extradition Act, 1965, is mentioned in section 5 of this Bill so we will have an opportunity to discuss...In general, I welcome the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-12/3/
12 Dec 1986 - Carey The way to go about it is not by opposing this Bill or putting forward arguments about prima facie...cases, totally to prevent the operation of anti-terrorism laws....It has been virtually impossible to extradite people from the UK because of this legal requirement....The introduction of this Bill is a serious indication by this Parliament that we are seriously concerned...about terrorism and its abolition.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/10/
15 Jan 1987 - relationships between those two jurisdictions that require us to do certain things in order to combat terrorism...must apologise to Senator Robinson if she felt obliged to make her statement about her own view of terrorism...because in a real sense both the Government and I have spent quite a lot of time before proposing this Bill...fulfil that other requirement and that is perfectly in conformity with what is provided for in this Bill...— that it was after very careful consideration of all of those areas that we took the view that the Bill
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Debate: Select Committee On Legislation And Security
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_legislation_and_security/1994-02-24/2/
24 Feb 1994 - in respect of requests for extradition from other European countries....Convention on extradition....Our extradition arrangements with other European coutries are governed by the 1957 Europen Convention...The fact is that the vast majority of countries which are party to the convention will not extradite...There is no convention to extradite our citizens and the issue has never arisen in practice.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Defence And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_defence_and_equality/2012-06-27/2/
27 Jun 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-10/8/
10 Jul 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-05-15/30/
15 May 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2001-11-29/2/
29 Nov 2001 - His extradition had been requested on more than 30 charges, 25 of which related to torture or conspiracy...The House of Lords ordered his extradition on three charges relating to the period after 1988 when Britain...ratified the torture convention and made torture an extraterritorial offence but held that the pre-1988...charges were not extraditable.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1986-12-16/6/
16 Dec 1986 - Barry) I recommend the Second Stage of the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, 1986, to the Seanad...The Bill has two operative sections....The motion before the Seanad, in addition to the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, 1986, will permit...Act by the member states in February 1986....It is on this basis that the Government have submitted the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, 1986
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-11-27/3/
27 Nov 1987 - Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, 1979....We have long since ratified the 1957 European Convention on extradition....Its primary purpose is to ratify the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism....It was introduced and passed because of an undertaking to ratify the European Convention given in Article...Today's Bill is ostensibly designed to provide alleged safeguards in respect of persons being extradited
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-03-06/26/
6 Mar 2019 - must be able to extradite its own citizens....The law there has been changed and citizens of the UK can be extradited to the European Union, including...I note what Deputy Ó Laoghaire said in respect of the European Convention on Human Rights and I agree...Convention on Human Rights....Convention on Human Rights, the answer would probably have been "Yes".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/23/
16 Dec 1986 - Mac Giolla We are discussing three amendments each of which is to be put in a different place in the Bill...I suppose it does not make any difference where they are put in the Bill provided that there is some...Therefore, in this Bill we are dealing with a completely new situation as the Bill says that offences...This matter is the crunch of the whole Bill....It is right that it be dealt with first because if this is not amended the whole Bill has much more serious
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2003-07-01/2/
1 Jul 2003 - Deputy McDowell Extradition arrangements in Europe are intergovernmental in nature under a European...Union extradition convention....From 1 January 2004, the European arrest warrant will apply across the Union....Next Thursday I will publish the text of a Bill to incorporate this into Irish law....There will be specified offences to which the European arrest warrant will apply.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-06-03/4/
3 Jun 1975 - which was only heard once and that was from himself, said he thought that the principle behind this Bill...of terrorism in this island....As things stand at the moment, we have an international obligation by reason of our adherence to the European...Convention on Extradition to permit exemptions for political offences or offences connected with political...countries to see if the Extradition Convention should be amended.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/4/
15 Jan 1987 - the question would really then be whether a resubmission of that case here under the terms of this Bill...would now result in an extradition....The question that would have to be resolved in relation to extradition is not the question of guilt or...innocence but the question of whether the person is liable to be extradited and I simply could not say...how a given court would react to a case where there had previously been a refusal of extradition and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-06-14/13/
14 Jun 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/10/
15 Jan 1987 - O'Leary I do not know whether this would conform to our duties under the extradition treaties to which...Our agreement to extradite people to any country is not an unconditional and indefinite surrendering...becomes unsatisfactory in any country, even if it requires ceasing to be signatories of a particular convention...provisions and the convention on terrorism to which we are now subscribing....The pressure on Ministers, particularly a pressure on Ministers where the request relates to the extradition
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2003-12-16/2/
16 Dec 2003 - This is not an extradition Bill....It is a Bill to do with a rendition which is not extradition in the classical sense....It is a European arrest warrant....Therefore we will have to think about whether we want to have it cited jointly with our extradition law...broader issue, at this stage the UK, Spain, Portugal and Denmark have implemented in legislation the European
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/10/
15 Jan 1987 - brought in an amendment of this kind it would be interpreted that we were abandoning our campaign against terrorism...offences in this country and we try him, it could hardly be regarded as abandoning our campaign against terrorism...The Minister also seems to be changing his feet a bit about how we should look at this Bill because some...of the time he is pointing out the difficulties this would create in regard to our relationship with European...countries other than the UK while some of the time he is telling us that really this Bill is designed
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_and_equality/2019-02-27/3/
27 Feb 2019 - Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire On that section, the section relating to extradition and the legislation...generally, it is currently the case that the UK is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-05-15/30/
15 May 2012 - to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill 2011....The objective of the Bill is to apply the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 to states other than EU member...Since its enactment, the European Arrest Warrant Act has allowed for a more efficient method for extradition...I commend the Minister on bringing forward the Bill as a matter of urgency as it will amend section 15...This was changed by the Extradition European Union Conventions Act 2001 which provided that all extradition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/23/
16 Dec 1986 - It deals with Part III of the Extradition Act, 1965, whereas the other amendments deal primarily with...Part II of the Extradition Act, 1965.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-06-14/9/
14 Jun 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-05/4/
5 Dec 2003 - Bill entitled an Act to give effect to Council Framework decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest...warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States; to amend the Extradition Act 1965 and certain
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-11-27/3/
27 Nov 1987 - As I have said, we have been a party to the European Convention on Extradition of 1957 and have been...Likewise the idea underlying the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism is that certain...The European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism is a Convention to which virtually all the member...The implementation of the 1987 Act and the ratification of the European Convention on the Suppression...A similar provision is contained in the Convention on The Suppression of Terrorism and is specifically
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/29/
17 Dec 1986 - It will always be open to a person whose extradition is sought to claim the protection of the political...It will always be open to a person whose extradition has been sought to claim the protection of the political...serious crimes and to remove the cloak of political exception from what are simply acts of violence and terrorism...Deputy Blaney's statements and question, I cannot say who might be sought by any other jurisdiction for extradition...decided they would not accept that claim and that they would proceed to give effect to requests for extradition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/3/
17 Dec 1986 - A certain date, say 1975, should be inserted into the Bill in the matter of offences that can no longer...We cannot leave the Bill open in this regard to the extent that any country can go as far back as they...We are talking now in 1986 and with the benefit of hindsight we are able to say that we should have done...We cannot have a section in the Bill which allows another jurisdiction to present us with warrants for...We must insert some date in the Bill in regard to retrospection but that must not be any old date.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1986-12-16/6/
16 Dec 1986 - I begin by referring to a sentence in the Minister's speech, introducing the Bill to this House....It is undesirable that an important Bill of this kind should be debated at the last minute in the Seanad...appeared to be along the following lines and I quote from my article in The Irish Times , 25 November, 1986...of the European Communities....because that is where I started my own assessment of the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1965-06-03/7/
3 Jun 1965 - Lenihan The point there is that we will still have a number of extradition arrangements to make— eventually...future is concerned, we shall have arrangements with Britain and Northern Ireland and with a number of European...countries which have ratified the Convention, but we hope to expand this into a scheme of extradition...Under this Bill we will have power to make such extradition arrangements as we may devise between ourselves...These may involve reciprocal arrangements for the extradition of nationals.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-01/4/
1 Dec 1987 - Jacob The introduction of this Bill by the Government is a clear recognition of the urgent need to...This is consistent with the stance taken by Fianna Fáil since Ireland first signed the European Convention...on the Suppression of Terrorism in February 1986....It is against this background that the safeguards included in the Bill must be considered and brought...Could we now, as has been suggested, seriously consider not ratifying the European Convention?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/25/
16 Dec 1986 - Molony Would Deputy Cowen square the views he is offering on this Bill with the 1965 Extradition Act
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-03/3/
3 Dec 1987 - order by the Government applying the provisions of the Act to countries which are not parties to the European...Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism subject to an affirmative resolution of both Houses....The proposal in section 3 of the present Bill is not on the same footing at all....is generally accepted internationally and that is provided for in the Convention on Extradition....The period of 45 days which was referred to in Part II of the 1965 Act is derived from the European Convention
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-05-15/29/
15 May 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-07-05/6/
5 Jul 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-18/6/
18 Jul 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-07-05/5/
5 Jul 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-11/4/
11 Dec 1986 - Boland) I move: That it will be an instruction to the Committee on the Electoral (Special Voters) Bill..., 1986, that it has power to make provision in the Bill in relation to the name and occupation of a candidate...on a nomination paper at a Dáil, European Assembly or local election and in relation to the production...of documents by an elector at a polling station at a Dáil, Presidential, European Assembly or local
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/7/
18 Dec 2003 - case – this is my personal view – that the current arrangements based on the 1957 Council of Europe convention...on extradition will continue to apply until the relevant parties to any request are in a position to...operate the European arrest warrent.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-27/5/
27 Oct 2005 - We should have a united voice in the House in our fight against terrorism at home and, in particular...in regard to this Bill, against international terrorism....I accept we have no extradition treaty withColombia....I accept that Colombia has not acceded to the conventions——
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-14/6/
14 Jan 1987 - and the kind of violent acts to which this Bill refers....I note that the Government propose to accept the convention without any reservation despite the fact...That is true of a number of European countries....Nevertheless one must look at section 10 which envisages an extension of this kind of arrangement outside the European...It is easy to say that the terrorist offences that are meant to be dealt with under this convention are
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-12/3/
12 Dec 1986 - Treacy Terrorism, hijacking, maiming and murder are truly terrible deeds which all of us in this House...informer, backed up by all the paraphernalia of the military and the police, all designed to terrorise and suppress...No, we should not be asked to pass an Extradition Bill in present circumstances because up to now many...While I abhor terrorism, I hate injustice and untruth....Our European collegues said so yesterday.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-06-27/25/
27 Jun 2012 - European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/4/
15 Jan 1987 - of that case, since the other persons involved had availed of, and had successfully contested their extradition...What I would be concerned about is that following the passage of this Bill as it stands the court dealing...before it legislation which said that it applied to an offence committed before the passing of the Bill...I would prefer if we had taken a very clear stand on the convention and on our own extradition legislation
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-12-06/30/
6 Dec 1988 - Ireland undertook to ratify the European Convention on Terrorism on signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement...That, in effect, is what the 1987 Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act...Convention on Terrorism and that there was a possibility that they would not allow the Convention to...It is simply not good enough to allow a useful tool, that is extradition, in the fight against terrorism..., failed to endorse the objectives of that Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-27/5/
27 Oct 2005 - 9(2): ( f ) circumstances exist whereby— (i) had the person's surrender been sought pursuant to a European...the surrender of the person would not be prohibited under Part 3 (other than section 38(1)) of the European...Arrest Warrant Act 2003, or (ii) had the person's extradition been sought, his or her extradition would...not be prohibited under the Extradition Acts 1965 to 2001 (other than section 10(1) or 10(1A) (inserted...by section 11( a ) of the Extradition (European Union Conventions) Act 2001) of the Extradition Act
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-02-25/3/
25 Feb 1988 - Gallagher) The Jurisdiction of Courts and Enforcement of Judgments (European Communities) (No. 2) Bill...Senators will recall that the purpose of the Bill is to enable Ireland to ratify the 1986 EC Convention..., as amended by the 1978 Accession Convention, when interpreting the conventions....Section 4 (2) of the Bill already provides for the consideration by the courts of the report by Mr....1978 Accession Convention.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2001-11-29/2/
29 Nov 2001 - As this Bill seeks to amend the text of the 1995 and 1996 conventions, and obviously has regard to the...principal Act on extradition, it can be quite confusing for practitioners.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/43/
17 Dec 1986 - consistent with recent European moves to combat terrorism....European countries is a major problem for all....Other European countries — Germany, France, The Netherlands and so on — do not extradite their citizens...We must try to ensure that some safeguards are built into this Bill for the people who could be extradited...Whether the position in the North improves or gets worse the implications of this Extradition Bill could
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-11/21/
11 Dec 1986 - An Ceann Comhairle We are dealing with the European Communities (Amendment) Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-01-15/4/
15 Jan 1987 - under section 3 (3) (vi), attempted to commit an offence involving the use of a firearm and to seek the extradition...What the Minister quoted from the Extradition Act would provide no protection for such an individual....for the future we would have no such problem, but as of now, a Turkish citizen living here could be extradited...Under the convention we have no way of protecting a person from that treatment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-04/19/
4 Dec 1986 - 1976 which Deputy Woods was holding up to high praise here as being an adequate mechanism for joint suppression...of terrorism....basis that it is good enough for the suppression of terrorism and makes the measure before the House...of terrorism which is a notoriously and internationally practised evil....We have a respectable vehicle for doing so by reason of the fact that the European Convention, springing
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/25/
16 Dec 1986 - Article 6 of the convention states quite clearly that a contracting party shall have the right to refuse...At the time of signing the basic convention on extradition we defined national as citizens of Ireland...If you can, under the convention, refuse extradition of nationals entirely, then surely you can refuse...In the White Paper of March 1986 on extradition the British Government said that they considered that...They seem to be doing what many of our European partners are doing — reserving unto themselves the final
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-12/3/
12 Dec 1986 - That is the type of problem the Bill raises....relates to our extradition agreements with all members of the Council of Europe and not merely to extradition...If the only reason for the Bill is its effect on the Anglo-Irish extradition procedures, then the measures...sudden upsurge of the administration of justice in the six north-eastern countries where it has been suppressed...I do not support terrorism or extreme organisations but I support civil liberties for individuals.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-17/3/
17 Dec 1986 - —Where a request is received for the extradition of a person under this Act, the requesting country shall...be required to provide evidence as to the commission by the person claimed of the offence for which extradition...is requested, and extradition shall not be granted unless sufficient evidence is produced to satisfy
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/7/
18 Dec 2003 - The framework decision on the European arrest warrant owes its origins, in particular, to the Tampere...European Council which endorsed the principle of mutual recognition which, in its view, should become...the cornerstone of judicial co-operation in both civil and criminal matters within the European Union...It also recognised the need for extradition arrangements that would support and reflect the shared values...practical expression of the desire of member states to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of extradition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-01/4/
1 Dec 1987 - The Extradition Act, 1987 implementing Ireland's ratification of the European Convention on the Suppression...1957 and now the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism.The Government missed a golden...the Suppression of Terrorism....The accession of this country to the European Convention on the Supression of Terrorism is linked in...Ireland has now acceded to the European Convention on the Supression of Terrorism since midnight.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-12-16/25/
16 Dec 1986 - As I pointed out on Second Stage, a lot of countries in Europe refuse to extradite their citizens under...any circumstances and there are others who will only extradite people out of their jurisdiction, including...three signatories of the 1957 Convention, provided a prima facie case is shown.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-12-17/28/
17 Dec 2003 - If the Bill is passed without amendment No. 3, it will accelerate the extradition process between member...Most of the traditional grounds for refusing extradition are abolished, including the political offence...The Bill abolishes the dual criminality requirement for large categories of crime....It also disapplies the speciality rule and the re-extradition rule in a number of circumstances....so-called EU anti-terrorism road map.
