Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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347. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the statement from the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, that he was advised by the Garda Commissioner that PULSE does not solely capture information on offenders, but is also used to store information on Garda interactions with individuals, whether adults or children, such as victims of crime, persons injured in road traffic accidents and child welfare incidents, the circumstances under which the records of two persons (details supplied) recorded on the PULSE system are now being removed by An Garda Síochána. [40434/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I understand that the matter being raised by the Deputy is the subject of a complaint to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. I also understand that the matter is the subject of correspondence between the legal representative of the children's parent and the Garda authorities. In these circumstances I am unable to comment on the matter at the moment.

On a more general note, the Garda Commissioner has advised me that she has caused a detailed analysis of PULSE to be conducted to identify the extent to which children have been recorded on PULSE, and I will carefully consider the outcome of that analysis.