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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Communication on this has not been very good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: It could be argued that people have an emotional attachment to their weapons. They like handling them and shooting them. The concern seems to be with security, transport and keeping them in private homes. I spent quite a number of years with the Army Reserve, which was known as the FCA, so I have a familiarity with many of these weapons and heavier weapons also. Could an argument be made...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Even there security concerns and issues exist. Have guns which are no longer legal in Ireland been surrendered to the Army?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Of course. Are the guns surrendered to the Garda Síochána disposed of or destroyed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Are guns still being taken in and destroyed by the Garda Síochána?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: This is a very serious issue and people are concerned about it. I take the point made by Ms Walsh that detailed consultation and discussion will take place after submissions are given to the committee and to the Department and the Minister after the end of January. It is a very serious matter and we all want to have the country as safe as we can. Does Ms Walsh wish to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: We will get an answer to that question before coming back for the second one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: While the hearing today is on licensed guns, there may be an issue about those which were licensed but were stolen and now are illegal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: There are semi-automatic and automatic categories and some of the weapons under consideration today are semi-automatic, as opposed to automatic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: It is a one-shot system rather than-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: One must squeeze the trigger each time to fire-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: ----- rather than with an automatic weapon, where one pulls the trigger and it simply discharges the whole lot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: I have one or two questions. Members have been asking parliamentary questions on this issue and I received a response to one yesterday in which I was told I would be written to. I notice that going back to last February, the response to almost every question asked regarding the number of guns that have been stolen is that the Deputy will be written to. However, the Garda...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Should it be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: It is a 9 mm.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: The chief superintendent has said he cannot answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: Of course, it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: We will get an answer to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: I remind members that this is the first meeting on the issue and that we will hear from other interested parties in January. Before we write to the Minister we will have more work to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing (17 Dec 2014)
David Stanton: I call Deputy Mac Lochlainn.