Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion with Department of Justice and Equality
9:45 am
Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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How will the European Public Prosecutor Office, EPPO, function in each member state? Will files be referred to it from Europol, from the Garda Síochána or the PSNI? Who takes the prosecution in the individual jurisdiction? Will it be handed to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the relevant jurisdiction? Could Mr. Munro tell us how it in envisaged such an office would function in practical terms?