Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

We have no agreements with Albania and Zimbabwe. I do not know what illusion the Deputy is labouring under, what he has been reading or who has been briefing him on this matter, but he is living in fantasy land if he thinks that is the position. In the context of the European arrest warrant procedure, there is currently only one agreement in place relating to the European Union, which is between the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway. When we implement this legislation that will be able to be progressed further. Is the Deputy seriously suggesting that there is not a proper justice system operating either in Iceland or Norway? If he is, he might have given us some information.

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