Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing

9:40 am

Mr. Fergus Healy:

I would not say it is extraordinarily high. I would not like to comment on the proliferation of those guns but I would say that, being mainly a rural island and given rural activities particularly in the farming community, the licensing of rifles and shotguns is normal practice. Farmers and people in rural areas will have licensed firearms for recreational purposes. I would therefore not think it was extraordinarily high.