Mr. Drew Harris:

In respect of the sawn-off shotgun, the last record of it being in the entire community An Garda Síochána's custody goes back to April 2010 and then it was recovered in August 2023. That was then reported to me, I believe, on 21 August 2023. The reason it took eight months for a full report to be submitted to the Minister was that I was awaiting the outturn of the preliminary investigation being undertaken at a local level as to the disappearance of this weapon. Regrettably, we were not able to source or discover how this weapon, in effect, left Garda custody-----