Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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211. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the crime levels in County Limerick in 2013 and 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16385/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, 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 the available statistics directly to the Deputy. In this regard it should be noted that the CSO is currently carrying out a detailed analysis of certain issues raised by the Garda Inspectorate in relation to the recording, classification and reclassification of crime, to see whether and to what extent they may have implications for the crime statistics which that Office produces.The CSO have advised that this has led to a delay in the publication of crime statistics and the latest published crime statistics relate to the second quarter of 2014.