Mr. Brian Conroy:

In response to Deputy's Kenny question, in the Irish firearms dealing context the types of firearms and sporting firearms on offer by dealers nationally would be in the vernacular context of what applications firearms are used for. The vast majority of firearms sold in Ireland would be sporting shotguns, followed by sporting rifles and then sporting handguns-pistols. These would not comparable to the type of firearms the Deputy might have seen when on his travels in eastern Europe, where the purchase of firearms would not have been for sporting reasons. It is important to point that out.