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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 6 Dec 1983

Vol. 346 No. 6

Written Answers. - Offences Against the State Act.

588.

asked the Minister for Justice if he will state for each year from 1972 to date the number of persons (a) arrested under the Offences Against the State Act, (b) charged under the Act and (c) convicted under the Act.

Limerick East): The numbers of persons arrested under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939, in each year from 1972 to date are as follows:— 1972, 229; 1973, 271; 1974, 602; 1975, 607; 1976, 1,015; 1977, 1,144; 1978, 912; 1979, 1,431; 1980, 1,874; 1981, 2,303; 1982, 2,308. To 31 October 1983, 1,857.

The other information sought by the Deputy is not readily available and could only be provided by the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of Garda time.

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