Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 1128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount An Garda Síochána has spent on the purchase of firearms and handcuffs and other restraints each year since 2000. [36069/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Expenditure on firearms and related items for the years 2004 to 2007 is outlined in the table below. The figures include both the purchase of firearms and items such as ammunition, holsters, repair/ maintenance and component/replacement parts.

I am informed by the Garda authorities that expenditure for firearms for the period 2000 to 2003 and expenditure in relation to handcuffs and other restraints, which is charged to a general operation code, is not readily available and could not be obtained without the allocation of a disproportionate amount of staff time. I can inform the Deputy that a request for tender for the supply of up to 15,000 handcuff sets was issued by the Garda Síochána in July 2007 and the evaluation of the tender proposals received is almost complete.