Mr. Kaz Balinski:

Gardaí here do not carry so we are asking them to perform a task that they do not necessarily understand. That puts undue pressure on them.

If one puts oneself in their position one would say, "I have to do this or that stack of paper. I know how to do this one; I do not how to do that". That is where the time delay will happen. There is a human element. We are talking about standardisation, which would get rid of all that. The difficult element of the problem for the Garda would be taken away, and placed into a more privatised sector with a link between the Garda by way of standardisation with trained firearms officers. It would present gardaí with the potential to do psychological profiling and due diligence testing of individuals or applicants, something which they already do very well. That is what they do, because they do not carry.