Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Ms Laura Galligan:
For the months of October and September, I decided to look at every death and not just homicides. I looked at every single death recorded on the PULSE system by An Garda Síochána within the 16 categories of death. I did a more in-depth analysis to pick up on more issues in respect of data quality and to see if there were more issues, as I mentioned in my statement. Within that month, yes there were 95 deaths with data quality issues.