Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

That figure was down on the 2003 figure and the statistics for last year and the provisional headline figures, which I presume are open to final examination, show decreases in some of the most serious categories. Manslaughter was down 50%, aggravated sexual assault was down 43%, robbery of cash goods in transit was down 27%, robbery from the person was down 23% and theft from the person was down 18%.

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