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Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Department of Justice and Equality

Departmental Data

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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1945. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for attempts or threats of murder in each of the past ten years. [41144/25]

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The Garda authorities have provided the following table which provides a count of arrests made each year for the 2015 to 2024 period whereby the originating incident type was either Murder Threat or Murder Attempt.

Year Murder Attempt/Threat
2015 241
2016 276
2017 307
2018 404
2019 464
2020 701
2021 739
2022 711
2023 494
2024 592

Please note that all data is operational and may be subject to change.

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