Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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119. To ask the Taoiseach if the CSO will produce more granular data on the cases of white collar crime. [26590/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The CSO compiles quarterly statistics on recorded crime incidents in Ireland. Crime statistics are based on administrative data recorded on PULSE, the incident recording system used by An Garda Síochána. The CSO disseminates crime statistics according to the Irish Crime Classification System (ICCS). The term ‘white collar crime’ is not currently defined for incident recording or statistical purposes but Group 09 of the classification ‘Fraud, Deception and Related Offences’ comprises a variety of fraud-related incident types including, for example, forgery, counterfeiting, money laundering and corruption. The CSO currently publishes quarterly data for Group 09 of the ICCS and will examine the possibility of producing more disaggregated data for this category. See annual data in the table below.

Recorded Crime Offences (Number) by Type of Offence and Year