Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Aggressive Begging from a Public Order Perspective: Discussion
10:20 am
Mr. Adrian Cummins:
This is more of a suggestion than an answer, because I do not know the answer. However, there is a line item on the Garda PULSE system to record instances of aggressive begging which the gardaí come across or which are reported to them. It is a specific category. That is one way to assimilate relevant data. Currently, there does not appear to be any research or data which we can hand to someone to say these are the facts and figures relating to specific aggressive begging incidences in the city; that is how many people are engaged in it and the frequency of it in the capital city.
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