John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents which were initially entered on the Garda PULSE system as a crime and subsequently reclassified as attention and complaints in January 2017 and February 2017 for each Garda district, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17548/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the publication of recorded crime statistics. The latest CSO quarterly Crime Statistics release was published on 29 March 2017 and shows crime trends for the twelve months ending 31 December 2016. Crime statistics for the first quarter of 2017 have yet to be published by the CSO.

In relation to the reclassification of crime incidents, as referred to by the Deputy, this matter has been addressed in two reports by the CSO which analysed the quality of recorded crime data on the PULSE system. The latest such report, entitled "Review of the quality of crime statistics 2016", was published in September last year and is available on the CSO website.

I am pleased that the CSO have indicated that they intend to conduct further reviews of crime data quality.