Deaths from Use of Firearms (Ireland).

HC Deb 14 June 1910 vol 17 cc1288-9W

Captain CRAIG

asked the Chief Secretary whether he will state the number of deaths during the last two months from the use of firearms in Ireland?

Mr. BIRRELL

Returns of deaths are only furnished quarterly to the Registrar-General, and he is not, therefore, in a position to give the required information for the period mentioned in the question.

Mr. CHARLES CRAIG

asked the Chief Secretary whether he proposes to introduce legislation regulating the possession of firearms in Ireland, having regard to the indiscriminate use of such weapons in the recent riots at Cork and at Newmarket, county Cork, and elsewhere?

Mr. BIRRELL

I do not propose to introduce special Irish legislation on this subject, but the general question is one of much importance, and is receiving the attention of His Majesty's Government.