John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number and types of weapons surrendered to date under the weapons amnesty. [33210/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I have been informed by the Garda authorities that in the first five weeks of the Weapons Amnesty, up to the 9th October, 2006, a total of 236 firearms and offensive weapons, together with a quantity of ammunition, have been surrendered to Garda Stations throughout the country as follows:

The amnesty runs up to the 31st October, 2006 and I am confident that weapons will continue to be surrendered while the amnesty lasts.