Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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1985. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests each year for the past ten years, by country of origin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41639/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I am advised by the Garda authorities that data on nationality and ethnicity is not widely collated on PULSE and is not considered suitable for publication. This is in line with the policy followed by the Central Statistics Office, which does not compile statistics on the nationality or ethnicity of suspected offenders.

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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1986. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests for sexual offences, by country of origin, in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41640/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I am advised by the Garda authorities that data on nationality and ethnicity is not widely collated on PULSE and is not considered suitable for publication. This is in line with the policy followed by the Central Statistics Office, which does not compile statistics on the nationality or ethnicity of suspected offenders.

An Garda Síochána have provided information on the number of persons arrested for sexual offences in each of the past five years, which is presented in Table 1 below.

Table 1: The count of arrests where the arrest reason was given as ‘Sexual Offences’ for the 2020 to H1 2025 period

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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1987. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions for sexual offences, by country of origin, in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41641/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The management of the courts, operational matters and logistical functions are the responsibility of the judiciary and Courts Service, which are independent in exercising their functions under the Courts Service Act 1998 and given the separation of powers in the Constitution.

The Courts Service has a dedicated email address for the provision of information to members of the Houses of the Oireachtas: oireachtasenquiries@courts.ie

To be of assistance, I requested the information sought by the Deputy. Information related to the number of convictions for sexual offences is presented in the three tables. This has been provided by the Courts Service.

Table 1: The number of persons & number of offences where convictions were recorded for Sexual Offences in the District Court for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 & Jan – May 2025

Table 2: The number of persons convicted in the Circuit Court for Sexual Offences for the period the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024

Table 3: The number of persons convicted in the Central Criminal Court for Sexual Offences, Rape & Attempted Rape for the period the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024

The Courts Service does not hold any information on the nationality of persons before the Courts as it is not a relevant factor in court proceedings. For this reason, the nationality of the accused is not supplied to the Courts by the Prosecutors.

Table 1: Sexual Offences District Court convictions per year 2020 – 2025 (May)

Note: Table 1: District Court convictions, it should be noted that Courts can only provide data in relation to where offence codes were used by. Prosecutors may have used uncoded free text offences and such offences would not be included in the data provided.

Table 2

Table 3

Note 2: Tables 2 & 3, information taken from the Court Service Annual Reports for each year.