Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 10, line 34, after "Minister" to insert "(and, in the event of an application such as is referred to in section 17(1)(a) or (b), the Court referred to in the section)".

This amendment seeks to ensure that where a person applies for a habeas corpus writ, the court would have to be satisfied that such assurances given that the death penalty would not apply were sufficient. The Minister and the High Court should be required to be satisfied that such assurances given would be sufficient. I would like to hear the Minister of State's reply.