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.