Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of holders, annually, of licensed firearms who had their firearms removed from them by the Garda as a result of producing a firearm during a trespass on their dwelling or in the course of a crime being committed at their dwelling. [23888/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1925, as amended, provides for the revocation of firearm certificates by an issuing member of An Garda Síochána. I am advised by An Garda Síochána that they are not in a position to provide the information in the manner requested by the Deputy as it would require a disproportionate amount of Garda time and resources to collate the data requested.

Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances in which a superintendent of An Garda Síochána is entitled to remove a firearm from a holder of a firearms licence. [23889/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1925, as amended, provides that an issuing person may at any time revoke a firearm certificate granted by the person if satisfied that the holder of the certificate—

(a) has not a good reason for requiring the firearm to which the certificate relates,

(b) is a person who cannot, without danger to the public safety or security or the peace, be permitted to possess a firearm,

(c) is a person who is declared by this Act to be disentitled to hold a firearm certificate,

(d) where the firearm certificate limits the purposes for which the firearm to which it relates may be used, is using the firearm for purposes not authorised by the certificate,

(e) has not complied with a condition attached to the grant of the certificate, or

(f) where the firearm is authorised to be carried or used by a holder of a firearms training certificate, has, without reasonable excuse, permitted the holder of that certificate to carry or use the firearm while not under his or her supervision.