Mr. Justin Kelly:

I thank the Deputy for the question. In relation to the container he referred to and the movement of it, that container has defective Garda ammunition in it for our own official firearms. To move that out of the country, specific licensing is needed. There is nowhere within the Republic of Ireland where that can be destroyed. Obviously, as the Deputy can imagine, there are all sorts of protections and environmental concerns around destroying ammunition like this. We had to get that done in Germany. To get it to Germany, various export licences are needed to bring it through all those countries. It is a very difficult and complicated process to go through. We finally got that across the line. In fact, the container only moved yesterday and went to the port to be moved today. We are very satisfied that has moved because it has taken us a long time to move it out of the country.