Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 31 January 2007, if he will request the Garda authorities to record crime data relevant to a specific area such as the distinctive and major new apartment development at Rathborne, Dublin 7, a new community in a physically separate location in the interests of the proper and proportionate allocation of Garda resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4627/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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It is the responsibility of Gardaí attending an incident, including any in the area referred to by the Deputy, to ensure that the details of the particular incident, including the precise location, are recorded on the Garda PULSE system.

Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 31 January 2007, if he will request a report from the Garda authorities indicating the timeframe within which a relatively simple question of crime statistics for a readily identifiable area can be answered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4628/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Following the submission to me in 2004 of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics, I decided that the compilation and publication of crime statistics should be taken over by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, from the Garda Síochána. The Garda Síochána Act, 2005 consequently makes provision for this and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose.

Following the setting up of the necessary technical systems and auditing of the data from which the statistics are compiled, I am pleased to note that the CSO is now compiling and publishing criminal statistics and has published provisional headline crime statistics for the third and fourth quarters of 2006. In addition, it has compiled and published a series of quarterly and annual statistics for the period starting with the first quarter of 2003. I understand that the CSO are examining how the crime statistics published might be expanded and made more comprehensive.

I have requested the CSO to provide the information sought by the Deputy in Question No. 296 of 31 January, 2007 directly to him.