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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: The Deputy always asks loaded questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: Thank you. We will come back again if you have more questions later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: Are there any further questions? There is so much in this report that we could probably spend three days discussing it. I would like to put a few questions. Mention has been made of the opportunity to develop a single intelligence unit for national support services. This concerns intelligence matters, such as those issues that have been observed in France recently and major atrocities....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: Some comments have been made on the issue of neighbourhood watch and that area. How does the inspectorate see development taking place in this area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: Co-ordination between the Courts Service, the DPP, the Probation Service and so on has been raised. We hear anecdotal complaints from members of the public about how a garda must spend all day in court only to have a case adjourned with resulting time and resource waste and management issues. Mr. Olson has some things to say on that. Could he outline his points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: We have given it a good run. At least, we dipped our toe in the water. There is so much there and it is so comprehensive. Again, I join with colleagues in congratulating the Garda Inspectorate on the fantastic work it has done on this and thanking the witnesses for their time here today. I echo the points made by Mr. Olson at the beginning that the rank and file of the gardaí do such...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (14 Jan 2015)

David Stanton: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reopen the community services programme to new applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1346/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Administration (18 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: I asked a series of questions pertaining to next September, the urgency of temporary accommodation and what will happen to the additional students due to enroll in 2015. Perhaps the Minister of State should visit the sites because they are already cramped. Currently St. Aloysius is the only secondary level school in Carrigtwohill, . It is an excellent school but it is all-girls and all of...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Administration (18 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter and the Minister of State for being here. I noticed there were announcements this morning of new schools, new builds, extensions and so on and that the schools to which I am referring this evening are part of that. When the rail link to Midleton was reopened a number of years ago, one of the conditions was that...

Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: This is an interesting debate. I agree that it is a pity it is taking place at the close of session when there are few people around. I was not, unfortunately, a member of the convention but I took an interest in the debate and on the recommendations arising out of it. Like some of my colleagues, I come from a rural constituency. While many colleagues from the urban constituencies are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: I note in previous years a round table forum of all interested parties was brought together. Is that what will happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: That makes sense. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today and for giving so much of their time and expertise to this very important issue. We will respond to the Minister's request for our views and engage when the proposed legislation comes before us. We will engage with other stakeholders with an interest in this area in January. I wish the witnesses, committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: I would also like a breakdown of the type of guns involved. A total of 355 guns were stolen in 2013. Were these primarily handguns, shotguns or rifles? How many of these were licensed weapons taken from individual homes? Earlier Mr. Healy stated 40 were stolen from one particular firearms dealer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: What is the recovery rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: With regard to the issue raised by Deputy McFadden on forensics, do other jurisdictions carry out forensic tests of legally-held pistols and rifles so they have a record on file which can be checked? Mr. Healy stated this is not done here because of the cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: What is stopping this from happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: How much would it cost? Will Mr. Healy get this figure for us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: Head 5 of the Bill discusses shotguns manufactured to hold more than five cartridges. These are in a magazine, which I assume slips into the gun. Are shotguns manufactured for three cartridges as Mr. Healy suggests? He stated a shotgun manufactured to hold more than three cartridges will be outlawed or banned. As a magazine is detachable is this an academic question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: Does this de factomean all shotguns will be banned because they can be adapted very easily to hold a different magazine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)

David Stanton: We are speaking about licensed shotguns. I have a problem with the word "manufactured". If a shotgun must be restricted to not more than three cartridges and somebody has a magazine which holds five or more cartridges, he or she is breaking the law. We may need to re-examine the word "manufactured". One could argue all of the shotguns are manufactured to hold more than three cartridges....