Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I find it disturbing that the Minister cannot accept the amendment. I understand what he says about it being a Council decision. However, not everything in this section is a Council decision and I do not believe the change from seven days to 14 days is a Council decision. I welcome the fact that a person can be granted bail. Why does the Minister not just change the existing seven days to be held in custody or on bail rather than increasing the potential number of days a person may be held in custody to 14? Given the new technologies available it should be possible to ensure that material required to be transferred between jurisdictions under a European arrest warrant can be supplied more quickly? As most of these arrest warrants are standardised forms which need additional details to be inserted, the process is not as complicated or as long drawn out as the Minister suggests. If an alert is made on the Schengen information system, the jurisdiction making the alert should prepare the arrest warrant at that stage so that there will be no undue delay when somebody is arrested in another jurisdiction under this facility. I will press the amendment.

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