Ms Maeve-Anne Kenny:

Procedures were put in place for Ireland and the UK because of the common travel area. They actually pre-date the Lisbon treaty but were reinserted into the Lisbon treaty. In measures in the areas of freedom, justice and security, we are not automatically bound by them. That was in order to protect the common travel area or the common law system, where criminal law matters are concerned. That is the purpose of protocol 21, as it is known, to the treaties. We did make a declaration under declaration 56 to say that we would participate in freedom, justice and security measures to the maximum extent possible.