David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Just to follow on from Deputy Alan Farrell, I understand that in the normal course of events if a prisoner is sent from one jurisdiction to another, and it works both ways, that he or she finishes out the sentence in the jurisdiction where he or she ends up. If it was a five year sentence here and the person was sent over after two years the person would serve the following three years in prison in their own country. That is the international agreement that I understand exists. The difference here is that when the tariff time is completed and the person is still in prison in Britain because it has been deemed unsafe to release them and they are sent to Ireland, we cannot lock them up because the tariff is completed. If a person is sent here after the tariff time is completed they are virtually being freed, while at the same the British authorities would have deemed it unsafe to release them because of the public protection approach. Is that where we are at?