Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

• Please supply all information relative to the use of the provisions of the Firearms (firearms certificate for non-residents) Act 2000 as means of authorising the possession, use and carriage of firearms by officers of foreign police or other security services in this State. • How many authorisations/certificate have been issued to members of the police service of Northern Ireland in the last 4 years. • Please explain if these authorisations/certificates purport to permit the members of the PSNI to discharge lethal force in this jurisdiction and explain the precise legal authority for so doing, if that be the case. • Provide details of any protocol signed between An Garda Síochána touching on this topic. • Please supply copies of all memos, correspondence, emails relating to this request.