Ms Marion Walsh:

At the back of the review report there is an extract from the EU strategy published in October last year. While it does not give the exact number, it gives the number of legally held firearms per hundred of population. The numbers vary; there are high numbers for countries such as Germany in which there are 30.3 firearms per hundred of population and France in which there are 31 per hundred of population. In Ireland there 8.6, while other countries have lower numbers. We are in the middle range.