James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These amendments would have the effect of deleting the words "without delay" in places where they appear in the Bill. As the Senator will be aware, the EAW framework decision imposes certain time limits on where it has not been possible for Ireland, as the executing judicial authority, to comply with those time limits. In EAW proceedings the framework decision provides that the executing judicial authority shall inform the issuing judicial authority immediately of certain matters. It is clear to me that there must be a sense of urgency, and therefore the words "without delay" are appropriate in these particular provisions and for those reasons I cannot accept the amendment.