Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 529: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of anti social behaviour reported to the Gardaí in each of the past two years in each Garda division throughout the country; the number of successful prosecutions arising therefrom; the number of cases in which no action was taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9247/08]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 531: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of anti-social behaviour reported to or through each Garda station in County Kildare in the past two years; the number of prosecutions taken arising therefrom; the number successful, pending or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9249/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 529 and 531 together.

Following the submission in 2004 of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics, it was 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, the CSO is now compiling and publishing criminal statistics and has published provisional headline crime statistics since the third quarter of 2006.

I have requested the CSO to provide the statistics sought by the Deputy directly to him.