Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Justice
Mr. Andrew Munro:
The issues to which we had to respond most quickly were the court judgments. We do not control the timing of when they arise. Something like the fixes to the typographical errors in the European arrest warrant are issues we were aware of. Work had been done and we were waiting for an appropriate legislative vehicle in which to fix them and their small technical things. As the Deputy will have seen, this is what happens when you produce a miscellaneous provisions Bill. Things get added in and things that have been awaiting a vehicle for enactment can often be taken onboard in a miscellaneous provision Bill in that way. I do not think anybody would disagree that it is important that we maintain a degree of certainty around personal injury guidelines and that we maintain certainty around the ability to designate safe countries in response to that legislation. That is why we are moving rapidly on these.
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