Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

My first question is about secondary legislation. When will the ministerial orders implementing the Fines Act be introduced to stop the needless incarceration of individuals in prison? These people should simply never have been put in prison. My second question relates to No. 19 in the legislative programme, the European Arrest Warrant (Extension) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill. That Bill will implement the protocols of the 1957 Convention on Extradition. When will that Bill be introduced and will it deal with people who are fleeing the jurisdiction on foot of investigations of white collar crime, thus enabling people to be brought under the remit of the extradition Act where initial investigations have not taken place by the Garda Síochána?

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