Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)
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Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 280 and 334, the sanctions that have been applied in the 165 applications for the enforcement of court orders granted in 2010 and the 202 applications for the enforcement of court orders granted in 2009; the reason these applications were not referred to in the Court Services Report 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26514/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The statistics supplied in response to the previous Parliamentary Questions referred to by the Deputy related to cases taken under Section 5 (2) of the Courts (No. 2) Act 1986 arising from alleged breaches of Sections 7 or 11 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964. Under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, the management and administration of the courts including responsibility for maintaining and publishing court statistics is a function of the Courts Service.

However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries made and the Courts Service has informed me that the further detailed information sought by the Deputy is not currently collected and could only be retrieved by way of a manual examination of each individual Family Law court record in those courts where an Order was granted. As I am sure the Deputy will appreciate, this would require the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time and resources and it is therefore not possible to provide the level of detail sought.

I am informed it is not possible to include all statistics in the Annual Report. However, the Courts Service has indicated that consideration will be given to including the information previously supplied in response to Parliamentary Question No. 280 in future Annual Reports.