Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My last question was on the differences between countries and where something is a crime in one country and not in another. The bigger question is that this has been operating on an ad hocbasis for quite some time. What problems and challenges have emerged over that time? Has the Department of Justice and Equality done a review to see what difficulties there are with the type of information that is shared or not shared, with whether a crime is a crime in one country and not in another and with spent convictions? That would seem most opportune. The legislation is necessary and I agree with it but what have we learned from the ad hocadministration of it? What problems and challenges have been thrown up?