asked the Minister for Justice the numbers of persons in custody as at 1 January 1978 convicted of (a) murder (b) firearms or explosive offences (c) armed robbery or conspiracy to rob, and (d) offences resulting in Special Criminal Court convictions.
Written Answers. - Crime Statistics.
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The information is as follows: (a) 39; (b) 157; (c) 50; (d) 170.
A person may be in more than one of the above categories. In so far as conspiracy to rob is concerned, the answer to (c) relates only to conspiracy to commit armed robbery as it is assumed that this is the offence which the Deputy has in mind.