Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons that were arrested for suspected fraud in the State in each of the past ten years to date in 2022. [58952/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for operational matters such as arrests for suspected fraud. As Minister, I have no role in such matters.

However to be of assistance, the below table provided to me by An Garda Síochána outlines the number of arrests associated with fraud recorded in the PULSE system, as of 24th November 2022 for each of the past ten years.

* I have been informed that the above information is based upon operational data from the PULSE system as was available at 01:00 on 25 November 2022 and is liable to change.

I am also informed that the search of the PULSE database was conducted for custody logs associated with incidents of one of the following types:

- Employee/Internal Fraud

- Insurance Fraud

- Welfare/Benefit Fraud

- Shopping/Online Auction Fraud

- Account Take Over Fraud

- Card Not Present Fraud

- Bogus Tradesman Fraud

- Possession of an Article (Fraud)

- Phishing/Vishing/Smishing Frauds

- Cheque Fraud

- Accommodation Fraud

- Loan/Mortgage Fraud

- Investment Fraud

- Romance Fraud

- ATM Fraud/Black Box attacks

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of murders or suspected murders which took place in the State in each of the past ten years to date in 2022; and the breakdown by county in 2021 and 2022. [58953/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, 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 compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics. The CSO also continues to work with An Garda Síochána to address quality issues in the underlying sources used to compile the statistics.

The Deputy will be interested to know that the CSO publish figures across a number of categories including Murder and Attempts/Threats to Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide. These figures can be found at the following link: data.cso.ie/table/CJA01

The Deputy may also be interested to know that there is also a section on Homicide Offences in the recently published Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence report.

www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/an-garda-siochana-domestic-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-report-sept-22.pdf