Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime rate in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin for each year from 2002 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24530/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The figures for headline offences recorded for each Garda Division in 2002 are available in the Garda Annual Report for that year, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library. 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. In addition, the CSO has compiled and published a series of quarterly and annual statistics for the period starting with the first quarter of 2003. I have requested the CSO to provide the statistics sought by the Deputy directly to him.