Written answers

Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Crime Levels

10:00 pm

Photo of Michael LowryMichael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes reported across all headings here from 2002 to 2006; the number under each, reported in County Tipperary during the same period; the number of successful convictions that have been recorded for each; the number of cases pending; the number of unsolved cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8053/07]

Photo of Michael LowryMichael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes reported across all headings from 2002 to 2006 in County Tipperary; the number of successful convictions that have been recorded for each; the number of cases pending; the number of unsolved cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8054/07]

Photo of Michael McDowellMichael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 171 together.

The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the years 2002 to 2005 is available in the relevant Garda Annual Reports, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. 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 asked the CSO to provide the information sought by the Deputy, in relation to 2006, directly to him.

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