Mr. Barry Donoghue:

Much is unknown about the matter and we are trying to feel our way through it. The point I was making was that we are moving from a system of extradition, with which we are familiar and which has been tried and tested with the UK since 2003 - the European arrest warrant - to something which is different. That is the challenge essentially, that we will have to deal with an entirely different system. Without being too complicated about it, if somebody is being extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, it will be under a particular type of system. We are going to go into that same system so we will have to be assured that we know what the courts require in that different system. My main point was that the European arrest warrant was designed to be a streamlined system for Europe.