Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions and convictions for begging from 2000 to date in 2009. [44386/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for the compilation and publication of crime statistics by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose.

I have requested the CSO to provide relevant statistics directly to the Deputy.