Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated number of femicides (details supplied) for 2020. [14961/21]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy is aware, under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts is the responsibility of the Courts Service, which is independent in exercising its functions.  This includes the provision of information on the courts system.

In order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have made enquiries with the Courts Service, who have informed me that information is not recorded in such a way as to provide the specific statistic sought by the Deputy for 2020.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistics agency, is responsible for the publication of the official Recorded Crime Statistics.  Recorded Crime Victims 2019 and Suspected Offenders 2018; published last April contains details on Victims for 2019 and Victims & Offenders from 2018. I am further informed that they are currently compiling statistics for 2020. 

As the Deputy may be aware, statistics in relation to offender and victim cannot be published in real time as time has to be afforded for detections to happen, whereas the status of a victim is known as soon as the crime record is created.

To be of assistance, I have included a link to the CSO most recent publication in this regard;