Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Policing Matters: Garda Commissioner

2:00 pm

Photo of Noel GrealishNoel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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I have a second question for the Commissioner. I am aware that in the streets of Dublin one can hire a gun for €200 or an Uzi machine gun with a magazine of bullets for €500 from, I have been told, the dissident republicans. There is a guns-for-hire culture in our city. If a person wants to shoot someone, he or she can hire a gun from somebody to carry out a murder. What else would one do with a gun? Is the Commissioner aware of that, and is it true?