Written answers

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Liquor Licensing Laws

9:00 pm

Photo of Emmet StaggEmmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the fact that proceedings have been initiated in just 96 cases since 2003 to date in 2008 for offences in regard to the sale of alcohol to minors; if he is satisfied that the law is being adequately enforced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8989/08]

Photo of Brian Lenihan JnrBrian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The information supplied in Parliamentary Question 324 of 20 February, 2008 was provided in answer to a specific question relating to prosecutions commenced, between 2003 and 2007, for an offence under section 31(2) of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1988, as amended, and is not inclusive of prosecutions commenced in respect of any other offences relating to the sale of alcohol to minors.

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 on the overall number of prosecutions commenced relating to the sale of alcohol to minors, for the years 2003 to 2007 and to date in 2008, directly to him.

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