Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

It seems a very conservative interpretation of the statute. I understood from Deputy Gerard Murphy that what is at stake here is that Ireland would not recognise an amnesty of a third country if there was an application concerning an ICC offence committed in Ireland or if the person to be apprehended was within the Irish jurisdiction. Is the Minister of State suggesting that any third state whose citizen was here could apply immunity to that citizen resident in Ireland and that would not make him or her amenable to the ICC for an offence, even though he or she was capable of being apprehended in Ireland or within an Irish jurisdiction?

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