HC Deb 31 March 1988 vol 130 c705W
Mr. William Ross

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will now list the names of the persons for whom extradition warrants were sent from Northern Ireland to the Irish Rebublic in each of the last five years, indicating in each case which persons were extradited, which warrants were held to be defective, and

Table A
Non terrorist-type offences
Year of request Number of requests Granted Held to be defective while before Irish courts Other outcome3
1983 6 2 11 3
1984 0 0 0 0
1985 5 0 21 4
1986 6 0 0 6
1987 21 0 0 21
1 B. Burns—warrants defective owing to irregularity in issue.
2 J. G. O'Reilly—warrants defective primarily because it could not be proved that the person issuing them was a judicial authority.

Table B
Non terrorist-type offences
Year of request Number of requests Granted Held to be defective while before Irish courts Other outcome3
1983 22 10 0 12
1984 10 1 0 9
1985 28 5 0 23
1986 0 0 0 0
1987 1 1 0 0
3 Includes cases where the warrants were subsequently withdrawn, the fugitive was arrested in the United Kingdom, cases rejected by the Irish courts for other reasons and cases as yet uncompleted.