Amendment No. 4 appears to seek to provide for shared responsibility between the Garda Commissioner and the Minister. As I have explained, the Minister is a competent authority for the purposes of the Bill and can facilitate the transmission and receipt of requests to and from those member states which do not have provision in domestic legislation to permit direct transmission of requests between judicial authorities and the police forces of a foreign state. The Commissioner has responsibility for the establishment, operation and running of joint investigation teams. I emphasise that the Minister has no role to play in the operational aspect of a team's work. For these reasons, I cannot accept the amendment.