Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 1151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drug related arrests that took place in Tipperary south in 2007 and separately in Cashel, Tipperary, Clonmel, Cahir, Fethard and Carrick-on-Suir. [1169/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Following the submission in 2004 of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics, it was determined by the Government that the compilation and publication of crime statistics should be taken over from An Garda Síochána by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency.

The Garda Síochána Act 2005 consequently made 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, the CSO is now compiling and publishing criminal statistics and has published provisional headline crime statistics since the third quarter of 2006. Accordingly, I have requested the CSO to provide the statistics sought by the Deputy directly to him.