Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 673: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form the total number of offences recorded annually under Section 18 of the 1977 Misuse of Drugs Act , relating to the forging of prescriptions that have occurred from 2005 to 2011, and to date in 2012 by location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26654/12]

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 (CSO), as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose.

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