Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 727: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases in respect of which the Criminal Assets Bureau has seized the assets of those involved in criminal activity; the number of cases pending; the number that have been resolved by agreement; the number currently contested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31314/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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As is required by Section 21 of the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996, the Chief Bureau Officer is required to present me with an Annual Report of the activities of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Since the establishment of the Bureau twelve such reports have been published.

The specific statistics sought by the Deputy are not readily to hand and would require the expenditure of an inordinate amount of time and resources to collate. However, each Annual Report of the Criminal Assets Bureau provides other detailed statistics, including the number of applications made by the Bureau under the various provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act, the Tax Code, the Social Welfare Code and the Criminal Code. The Annual Report is a publicly available document and is published on the Department's website at www.justice.ie. The Annual Reports are also laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.