Criminal gangs looking at Ireland as 'a potential soft target' - MEP warns.
"It's a cross-border, European prosecuting office - it effectively investigates certain crimes and can prosecute in national courts," he said."We've common law, it's based on court cases, interpretations and preceident - whereas in Europe they have a codified, written, civil law.
"Evidence that is gathered in a different way in Europe could not be submitted to courts in Ireland, for example, with a warrant system and the constitutional issues around the gathering of evidence as well," he said.On the likelihood of Ireland joining the EPPO, Mr Kelleher said:"We will cooperate with them in what we can do, in terms of our complicated legal system vis-a-vis the rest of Europe," he said.
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