Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if persons whose information is on PULSE are given a criminal intelligence number. [50360/13]

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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501. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the age of the youngest person with a criminal intelligence number on the PULSE system. [50361/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 500 and 501 together.

The management of the PULSE system is an operational matter which is undertaken by the Garda Commissioner. I have been informed by the Garda authorities that persons recorded on PULSE are not assigned criminal intelligence numbers. In addition I understand that each person recorded on the system is assigned a unique reference known as a Person PULSE Identification Number and, as I have previously informed the Deputy, a person of any age may be recorded - for example as a victim of a crime.