Justice minister found out from Labour TD that gardaí had supplied Carlow shooting gun

Labour TD Alan Kelly asked: 'Is it appropriate and right that I, as a member of the opposition, had to ring the minister for justice about this and inform him about it?'

Labour TD Alan Kelly asked: "Why did the garda commissioner not brief the minister for justice on the details of this case and the facts that there was an undercover operation and that the guns were supplied by An Garda Síochána?" File photo: Cillian Sherlock/PA

Labour TD Alan Kelly has told the Dáil that he informed the justice minister of the details of a gun that was supplied by the gardaí in the Evan Fitzgerald case.

The 22-year-old was on bail for gun charges when he fired shots in a Carlow shopping centre before fatally shooting himself. It emerged that Mr Fitzgerald was supplied with guns and ammunition by undercover gardaí as part of a controlled operation.