Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 101: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drivers who have been prosecuted for drug driving offences each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Following the submission 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. The CSO has published crime statistics since the third quarter of 2006. I have requested the CSO to provide the statistics sought by the Deputy directly to him.