Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 395: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that detection rates from crimes such as burglary are as low as 10% in Blanchardstown; if he will provide comparative statistics on detection rates for Dublin Garda stations; the number of crimes committed in the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19063/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The figures for burglaries recorded and detected for each Garda Division for 2005 are available in the Garda Annual Report, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library.

I was pleased to note that the Garda annual report for 2005 shows that the total number of burglaries recorded in the Dublin Metropolitan Region has decreased from 10.3 per 1,000 of population in 2003 to 9.2 per 1,000 of population in 2005. The number of burglaries recorded in the Dublin Western Division, which includes the Blanchardstown District, fell by 27.3% — from 2,032 in 2003 to 1,477 in 2005.

I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that a number of initiatives have been put in place by local Garda management to combat certain categories of crime in the Dublin 15 area, including burglary. Crime trends are closely monitored by local Garda management and the deployment of uniform and detective patrols, supplemented by the District Drug Unit, the Garda Mountain Bike Unit, the Divisional Crime Task Force, the Divisional Public Order Units and Traffic Corps Units, are predicated by these trends.