Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons successfully prosecuted for begging in a public place within Dublin city centre in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [38265/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that having sought the assistance of the Courts Service of Ireland, I understand that they are unable to provide the requested information.

I am informed that the offence of begging does not have a searchable code associated with it and so no report can be furnished. Offences of begging received from An Garda Síochána are in the form of a free text which means it isn't possible to run a report for the specific offence.