Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the annual reports of the committee appointed to monitor the effectiveness of the diversion programme for 2015 and 2016 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7509/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Annual Reports of the Committee appointed to monitor the effectiveness of the statutory Diversion Programme provide an overview of youth crime in the particular year in question. As such, the reports include details of, inter alia, the number of incidents and individual children and young people referred to the Diversion Programme and the outcomes of such referrals, including a geographical breakdown by Garda region and division.

Section 44 of the Children Act 2001 (as amended) requires the Garda Commissioner to submit the Committee's reports to me for laying before the Houses of the Oireachtas. The 2015 Annual Report of the Committee has been laid before the Houses and a copy is also available on the Irish Youth Justice Service's website at www.iyjs.ie.

The 2016 Annual Report is not yet available to me for publication from the Garda Commissioner.