Written answers
Tuesday, 26 April 2005
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Domestic Violence
9:00 pm
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 359: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of domestic violence incidents reported to the Garda over the past three years; and the numbers of prosecutions that resulted from same. [13062/05]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I have made inquiries with the Garda authorities in regard to the number of domestic violence incidents reported to them over the past three years and the information requested by the Deputy is laid out in the following table.
Number of reported domestic violence incidents 2002 to 2004. | |||
Year | Incidents | Persons charged | Persons convicted |
2002 | 10,248 | 1,370 | 651 |
2003 | 8,452 | 1,203 | 650 |
2004* | 6,229 | 1,104 | 538 |
*Figures for 2004 are provisional and liable to change. |
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