Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Firearms Licences: (Resumed) Discussion
10:00 am
Tony Mulcahy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Hannigan stated that there was no relationship between ownership of legally held sporting firearms and criminal activity. The Garda needs to make this connection for us if it exists and if there is evidence for it. The report states that the guns used to murder the Corbally brothers were stolen from a licensed dealer in Dublin. This may not be the case, and we need to clarify it, because anything in a report put before the House must be factual. We should ask the Garda from where the weapons were stolen. I am led to believe they were stolen from the PSNI in the North. We need to qualify this, because anything that comes before the House-----
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