Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported incidents of sexual offences against women in each of past five years and to date in 2012; the number of successful prosecutions arising from such incidents, with particular reference to section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 (as amended); the average length of custodial sentence, if any, received by the perpetrators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14288/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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 the relevant recorded crime statistics directly to the Deputy.

Insofar as sentences are concerned, tables, provided by the Courts Service, show the outcomes of prosecutions for all sexual offences in the District Court, Circuit Criminal Court and the Central Criminal Court for the years 2006 to 2010.

*Includes cases that were sent forward for trial to a higher court. Statistics are for individual cases, there may be more than 1 case per defendant