Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Collin's question raised the very practical issue as to how this would work. One of the main reasons there has been concerns about breaches of subsidiarity, not just from the only other common law jurisdiction, Britain, but also from countries such as The Netherlands, is because the EPPO and the EPPO deputies would have powers of investigation as well as prosecution. Is it not envisaged that they would be prosecutors in that sense, that they would depart from our model of prosecution so that they would have control not only over prosecution of the relevant offences but over investigation, which would be a significant departure from our current process, where the process of investigation is independent of the prosecution process?