asked the Minister for Justice the number of barring summonses and orders issued annually from 1976 to date; the number of summonses issued and the number of barring orders granted from 17 June 1983 to date; and the number of protection orders granted annually from 1981 to date.
Written Answers. - Barring Orders.
294.
, Limerick East): Statistics for all courts are compiled on the basis of the legal year, that is the year beginning on 1 August of one year and ending on 31 July of the next, and accordingly figures for the period 17 June 1983 to date are not available. They could not be compiled without the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time.
Most of the remaining information sought is available and I propose to circulate it in the Official Report in the form of tabular statements, with notes. The following are the statements:—
District Court
|
Year ended 31 July |
Number of Barring Summonses issued |
Number of Barring Orders granted |
Number of Protection Orders granted in the years 1981 to 1983 |
|
1978 |
—* |
397 |
|
|
1979 |
1,493 |
508 |
|
|
1980 |
1,917 |
956 |
|
|
1981 |
2,225 |
1,188 |
10)** |
|
1982 |
2,428 |
1,171 |
309) |
|
1983 |
1,697 |
848 |
876 |
* Annual statistics in respect of applications for barring summonses have been kept only since the year which commenced on 1 August, 1978.
** The figures for 1981 and 1982 do not include the numbers of protection orders granted in the Dublin Metropolitan District Court because records of such orders have been kept only since the year which commenced on 1 August 1982 and the numbers of orders made in those years could not be compiled without the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time.
Circuit Court
|
Year ended 31 July |
Number of Barring Summonses issued |
Number of Barring Orders granted |
Number of Protection Orders granted in the years 1981 to 1983 |
|
1976 |
Nil |
Statistics under this |
— |
|
1977 |
Nil |
heading were not |
— |
|
1978 |
Nil |
maintained prior to 1 |
— |
|
1979 |
2 |
August, 1982 |
— |
|
1980 |
1 |
— |
|
|
1981 |
6 |
3 |
|
|
1982 |
23 |
8 |
|
|
1983 |
242 |
129 |
46 |
As far as the High Court is concerned it would not be possible, without the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time, to provide the information sought. It may be taken that the numbers dealt with in the High Court are small, relative to the numbers dealt with in the District Court. For instance, the total number of summonses issued in the High Court under the relevant Act (not all of which would necessarily relate to barring orders) was 21 in 1981 and 27 in 1982.