Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Questions Nos. 1321 and 1322 of 26 January 2005, the number of persons who had prosecutions instigated against them and the number of persons who had prosecutions succeed against them, thereby demonstrating the number of persons who had multiple prosecutions instigated and succeed against them in each of the years listed. [12280/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table gives details of the number of prosecutions instigated by my Department against game shooters for breaches of the Wildlife Acts since 2000 and the number of those prosecutions that were successful. No individual was prosecuted on more than one occasion for such offences; however, some prosecutions related to more than one provision of the Wildlife Acts.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 322: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to the fact that under section 29 of the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000, he issued licences to hunt game-birds to resident sportsmen and sportswomen in an open season, such licences being endorsed on firearms licences or certificates, the number of such game-bird in open season licences he issued in each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the number of prosecutions instigated and successfully brought by him against persons found to be hunting game-birds in an open season when they did not have a hunting licence endorsed on their firearms certificate for each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. [12281/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of section 29 of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended, where a person applies to a superintendent of the Garda Síochána for the grant of a firearm certificate and makes the requisite declaration under that section, the certificate shall, if endorsed in the terms specified in the section, be deemed to be a licence granted by the Minister to hunt and kill any protected wild bird, including game birds, or hare that is covered by an open season order made under sections 24 or 25 of the Act, as amended. This endorsement function is carried out by the Garda Síochána without reference to my Department, and statistics on the number of such endorsements made on firearms certificates each year is not available in my Department. The information sought in the question on prosecutions instigated and successfully brought by my Department is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.