Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their testimony, in particular, Dr. Haynes and Dr. Schweppe who clarified one or two of the questions I was going to ask. I had a difficulty recently with the lack of statistical analysis on sexual offences complaints. Dr. Taylor went into great detail about surveys and statistics on the percentage of criminal complaints where there was evidence of racial bias or hatred. Are there any such statistics based on complaints in Ireland? Mr. Collins might be able to outline whether there are statistical data about complaints to GSOC or criminal complaints made by members of the Traveller community which had a racial element and did not proceed to prosecution or conviction perhaps because of inherent bias in the system. Are any such data available? Has Mr. Collins come across, for example, any cases involving assault, the use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or public order crimes where hate crime had been identified as an aggravating factor in sentencing? Is that information available? That is my only question.

The UK is a much more diverse society and the British seem to be way ahead of us in analysing complaints and prosecutions by age, gender, etc. Is there any such information available either from the Central Statistics Office or the Garda on these types of complaints and offences?