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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Department of Justice and Equality

Coroners Service

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of reportable deaths under the Coroners Acts, for each of the past eight years and the total number of inquests held. [36733/16]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The total number of deaths reported and the number of cases of which subsequently went to inquest in each of the years 2008 to 2015 is publicly available from the Annual Returns submitted by Coroners to my Department, which are published on www.coroners.ie. To be of assistance, I have included the information requested in the following table.

Year
Total Number of

Deaths Reported
Number of Cases that went to Inquest
2008
12,857
2,274
2009
14,228
2,533
2010
14,883
2,249
2011
15,567
3,781
2012
15,403
2,123
2013
16,182
2,087
2014
15,833
2,053
2015
16,756
2,046

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