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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-02-22/8/
22 Feb 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-05-09/7/
9 May 1990 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Report Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-04-26/12/
26 Apr 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-28/29/
28 Nov 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [Seanad]: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-03-07/4/
7 Mar 1990 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [ Seanad ]: Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-03-07/3/
7 Mar 1990 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [ Seanad ]: Financial Resolution.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-02-01/7/
1 Feb 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Order for Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-05-10/11/
10 May 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Report and Final Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-14/15/
14 Dec 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-14/38/
14 Dec 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-14/40/
14 Dec 1989 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [ Seanad ]: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-06-06/4/
6 Jun 1990 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-04-26/12/
26 Apr 1989 -
(c) In this subsection "firearm" does not include a firearm specified in paragraph (c) or (d) of section...4 (1) of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1989."
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-05-09/19/
9 May 1990 -
. - Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-02/26/
2 Oct 2019 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members]
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-07-15/45/
15 Jul 2021 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members]
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-06-06/27/
6 Jun 1990 -
An Ceann Comhairle Seanad Éireann has passed the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989 without
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-06/4/
6 Dec 1989 -
O'Dea I do not wish to hog the debate, but I will reply very briefly to some of the points made....Flanagan was not implying that there was some confusion in my mind between this legislation and the firearms...and offensive weapons legislation.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-04-28/22/
28 Apr 1971 -
Belton asked the Minister for Justice the number of firearm licences which are at present held and which...were held in the past two years by members of the Oireachtas; if in view of recent public statements...he will ask the Garda to inspect as a matter of urgency all such licensed weapons; and if he will report...to the House the number of such weapons which are no longer in the possession of the licence holders
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-01-19/429/
19 Jan 2010 -
Certificates, whether they be for handguns, rifles or shotguns, must now be considered by a member of...A person applying for a Firearm Certificate for target-shooting must now be a member of an authorised...In addition, persons who held a Firearm Certificate prior to 19 November 2008 for a firearm which now...requires a Restricted Firearm Certificate, must have demonstrated that the firearm is the only type...of weapon that is appropriate for the purpose for which it is required.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-02-01/7/
1 Feb 1989 -
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Firearms Acts, 1925 to 1971, to control the availability...and possession of offensive weapons and other articles and to provide for certain other matters connected
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-05-10/11/
10 May 1989 -
Reading the Bill now, there is a faintly Orwellian tone to section 4 because we are beginning to stand...We have a certain duty to ourselves, to the Oireachtas and, indeed, whether it be the English or Irish...language, to ensure that what we put through the Houses of the Oireachtas is actually in coherent English...weapons, to have dangerous and offensive weapons, to threaten people with dangerous or offensive weapons...and those things which are offensive, dangerous and deadly but which are not firearms.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-06-27/20/
27 Jun 2019 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-03-24/7/
24 Mar 2021 -
Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-02-22/8/
22 Feb 1989 -
The law at present has no effective control over offensive weapons other than firearms....offensive weapons such as knives, etc....Even though it has not crept in in this country, offensive weapons are used at all types of football...I notice that the Bill has two main sections — that stun guns and crossbows are brought within the Firearms...Other weapons which are prohibited under the Bill are flick knives.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-03-07/3/
7 Mar 1990 -
Burke) I move: That, for the purpose of any Act of the present session to amend and extend the Firearms...Acts, 1925 to 1971, to control the availability and possession of offensive weapons and other article...other matters connected with the matters aforesaid (including the extension of the definition of a firearm...) it is expedient to make provision for the payment of such fees as may be required by law for firearms...certificates in respect of such firearms.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-02-20/143/
20 Feb 1990 -
Council of Europe Conventions which the Minister for Foreign Affairs undertook (in reply to Parliamentary Question...No. 76 of 6 February 1990) to make available in the Oireachtas Library....Provision has been made in the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989, which has been passed by the...The exact effect of the Convention so far as our law is concerned was covered in the debate at the Committee...Stage on the Bill in the Seanad (Seanad Official Report, volume 122, columns 1158 to 1184).
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-02-22/8/
22 Feb 1989 -
Collins) As the law stands there is no effective control on offensive weapons other than firearms, save...during the course of debate....The Bill provides that stun guns will be firearms for the purposes of the Firearms Acts....In the Video Recordings Bill, which was recently debated in this House, I am endeavouring to ensure that...The question of legislative controls on offensive weapons was a matter considered by the Law Reform Commission
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-14/38/
14 Dec 1989 -
Flood I welcome the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989, as most timely legislation the main purpose...trade in other dangerous or offensive weapons....or offensive weapons....offensive weapons in the belief that they are somehow safer or in a better position to defend themselves...Part III of the Bill sets out to deal with offensive weapons and the possession of knives and other articles
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-06-06/3/
6 Jun 1990 -
Fallon The Order of Business for today is item No. 1, the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, 1989....This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil; we are on Report Stage....The item following that will be item No. 2, the Turf Development Bill, 1988 and it is proposed to complete...Second Stage of that Bill at 5.30 p.m....From 5.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. we will have a three hour debate on the Independent motion, item No. 10
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2006-05-03/2/
3 May 2006 -
and Offensive Weapons Act 1990...section 9(9) of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990; "weapon of offence" has the meaning given...It provides that firearms and offensive weapons may be handed into any Garda station....question may be forensically tested....Subsection (5) provides that where firearms or offensive weapons have been used in the commission of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1963-12-10/53/
10 Dec 1963 -
Haughey It has to deal with imitation firearms....weapon and section 28 of the same Act makes it a misdemeanour for a person to be found by night with...any dangerous or offensive weapon with intent to break or enter into any building and to commit a felony...The new section proposes to provide that unloaded firearms and imitation firearms are, for the purpose...of those sections of the Larceny Act that have been mentioned, to be deemed to be offensive weapons.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-05-10/11/
10 May 1989 -
When we say that a firearm covers some weapon that does fire and is an arm, I do not think we are going...We must remember why the Bill is here at all. It is to ban offensive weapons....It would be necessary to redefine the whole Bill...." or "firearm"....They should be made subject to the Firearms Acts.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1992-10-20/88/
20 Oct 1992 -
Flynn) I am informed by the Garda authorities that the firearm in question was surrendered to the Garda...Síochána in accordance with the provisions of the Firearms (Temporary Custody) Order, 1972 (S.I....State should, on or before 5 August 1972, surrender to the Gardaí any pistol or revolver or any rifled firearm...of a calibre greater than .22 inches and any ammunition for such firearms....Since then it has been Garda policy not to issue firearm certificates in respect of such weapons.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2003-03-12/68/
12 Mar 2003 -
McDowell) The provisions of the Firearms Acts 1925 to 2000 strictly govern the holding of a firearm,...and the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990 contains a number of controls regarding the availability...and possession of knives and other offensive weapons.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-05-10/11/
10 May 1989 -
Ryan I want to say two things about the Bill. First, I want to refer to section 17....I am pleased to see other offensive legislation, the Vagrancy Act, 1824, repealed....of that Act which I would commend to the Government's attention for immediate repeal, including the offensive...I accept the necessity to classify airguns as firearms, although in my relatively recent youth such weapons...toys, which perhaps has some risk attached to them, have now, of necessity, to be treated as dangerous weapons
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-06/4/
6 Dec 1989 -
the question of possession....It was under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill, section 5, where there was a complete hierarchy...and Offensive Weapons Bill, in the context of the dance hall, place of resort, public place or home....I made the point that we have the general rule that possession of offensive weapons or weapons capable...The Minister dealing with the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Bill talked about the need to recognise
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-12-06/4/
6 Dec 1989 -
O'Dea When I mentioned the firearms and offensive weapons legislation, I was referring to the fact that...possession of various implements and weapons is dealt with in that Bill....In this Bill we are dealing with possession of housebreaking implements and I was comparing the way the...concept of possession has been dealt with in both Bills....with intent to use that weapon for criminal purposes.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1989-05-10/11/
10 May 1989 -
very good linguistic and other reasons, it is wrong that we should be seen in any way to be making offensive...understand from what the Minister said, is to remove the certification of crossbows which are very offensive...and lethal weapons....same categorisation as what we traditionally understand as firearms, being guns of a lethal sort....second to none in his mastery of the English language about it possibly being a clumsy way of defining firearms
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-02-02/45/
2 Feb 1971 -
Private Members' Business. - Offensive Weapons Bill, 1970: First Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-02-25/41/
25 Feb 1970 -
Private Members' Business. - Offensive Weapons Bill, 1970: First Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-28/29/
28 Nov 1989 -
, make it a habit to carry offensive weapons....To have an offensive weapon while trespassing on private property will be an offence and it will be an...member states of the Council of Europe with a view to preventing illicit traffic in those items....and availability of offensive weapons on the one hand and, at the same time, to avoid any unnecessary...The Bill, therefore, provides that stun guns will be defined as firearms for the purposes of the Firearms
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-03-07/4/
7 Mar 1990 -
scoring any points but this problem was acknowledged by Deputy O'Keeffe during the course of Second Stage debate...I want to reassure Members that under existing statutory provisions there is a maximum penalty of 14...years for carrying a firearm or imitation firearm with criminal intent....absolutely essential for the superintendent to be sure that before allowing anybody to retain an old weapon...That is a matter of concern to the Government and to every Member in this House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2000-06-28/5/
28 Jun 2000 -
Wallace) I thank Senators who contributed to the debate on this short, non-controversial but nonetheless...The Bill largely gives effect to the recommendations of the firearms legislation review group....This is the 31st Bill passed by the Oireachtas in the lifetime of the current Dáil for which the Minister...A further ten Bills from the Minister's Department are at various stages before the Oireachtas, and many...If the weapon remains in the country it must be lodged with a registered firearms dealer.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-03-07/4/
7 Mar 1990 -
When this Bill was being debated in the Seanad the Minister took the view that imitation firearms would...firearm for the purpose of an offence the definition of "firearm" would cover the imitation firearm...We have addressed the problem of imitation weapons to some degree but the question now is whether we...This question has be be addressed seriously....The Minister's amendment, as drafted, seems to address the question of defective firearms.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1990-05-09/7/
9 May 1990 -
Unfortunately, the development of society has been such that there is now a far greater use of firearms...and offensive weapons in recent years....At this stage we have to include the longbow in the category of offensive weapons....The problem as I see it is that when the crossbow is outlawed — as it is very rightly under this Bill...difficulties could be overcome and in that situation there is a clear duty on us to ensure that the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-11-28/29/
28 Nov 1989 -
The Seanad considered at length the question of when, if ever, a superintendent will grant a firearms...There was some debate on the effect of bringing stun guns within the ambit of firearms legislation....by individuals which regulates the control and movement of firearms and ammunition between member states...The greater part of the Bill deals with the possession in certain circumstances of offensive weapons...It seems, for example, that an employer cannot authorise his employees to carry offensive weapons simply
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-06-23/5/
23 Jun 2000 -
O'Donoghue): I thank all the Deputies who contributed to this interesting debate....That gives Members an idea of the amount of legislation emanating from my Department....There are 11 other Bills at various Stages in the Oireachtas and many more are under preparation....There is also the consideration that access to unsecured weapons can facilitate suicide....to ensure that adequate security arrangements are in place for the safe and secure storage of lethal weapons
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2006-06-14/2/
14 Jun 2006 -
Act 1925 12(4) Register to be kept by firearms dealer fifty pounds €3,000 12(5)...exceeding €1,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both 22(2) Powers of members...of Garda Síochána ten pounds €1,000 Amendment of Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990...11( a ) Production of article capable of inflicting serious injury £1,000 €5,000 12...(3)( a ) Power to prohibit manufacture, etc. of offensive weapons £1,000 €5,000 12(3)(
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-25/298/
25 Oct 2005 -
McDowell) The importation of machetes or machets is prohibited under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons...A machete or machet is defined as an offensive weapon for the purpose of the 1990 Act which prohibits...the manufacture, importation, sale, hire or loan of offensive weapons.
