Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes recorded and detected in each of the Garda stations (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6923/07]

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 directly to him.

John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of attacks on the elderly that have occurred in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 on a county basis; the number of incidents of burglary or larceny that have taken place on the homes of older people in 2004, 2005 and 2006 where the house was vacant at the time and where the occupants were not disturbed by the intruder; the number of incidents that have resulted in the older person moving out of their homes into care or with relatives; the number of injured parties who possessed socially monitored pendant alarms at the time of the incident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6924/07]

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 directly to him in relation to the number of attacks on persons over 65 years and the number of burglary and thefts from the person offences recorded when the injured party was over 65. The other information requested by the Deputy is not available and would require a disproportionate expenditure of time and resources to research.