Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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17. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests made for prostitution offences between each of the years 2008 and to date in 2016, by offence type, county, gender and age group in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24456/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of the official recorded crime statistics, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose. I have asked the CSO to forward the available statistics in relation to the information requested directly to the Deputy.