Written answers
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Missing Persons
9:00 pm
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals reported missing here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20878/10]
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I have been informed by the Garda authorities that from June 2009 to May 2010 a total of 527 persons of non-Irish nationality and a further 40 persons of unknown nationality were reported missing. I am further informed that of these 567 persons 509 have been recorded as found.
I am also informed by the Garda authorities that compiling statistics prior to June 2009 on foreign nationals reported as missing would necessitate a manual examination of records and would require a disproportionate amount of Garda time and resources.
The figures provided are operational and liable to change.
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