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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 2 May 1990

Vol. 398 No. 2

Written Answers. - Crime Statistics.

Michael Joe Cosgrave

Question:

94 Mr. Cosgrave asked the Minister for Justice if he will indicate the latest crime figures for Dún Laoghaire Garda Station area, County Dublin; and the corresponding figures for (i) 1989 (ii) 1988 and (iii) 1987.

I am informed by the Garda authorities that the latest available provisional figures for indictable crime recorded for the Dún Laoghaire sub-district are for the period 1 January to 31 March 1990 and these, together with the figures for the corresponding periods in 1987, 1988 and 1989 are as follows:—

Period 1 January - 31 March

No. of Indictable Offences

1987

253

1988

291

*1989

253

*1990

293

*Figures for 1989 and 1990 are provisional.

Michael Joe Cosgrave

Question:

95 Mr. Cosgrave asked the Minister for Justice if he will indicate the latest figures for (a) robberies and (b) assaults in each of the Dublin Garda divisions; and the corresponding figures for (i) 1989, (ii) 1988 and (iii) 1987.

I am informed by the Garda authoritises that the latest available provisional figures recorded for the indictable offences of robbery and assault in the DMA Garda divisions are for the period 1 January to 31 March 1990 and these, together with the figures for the corresponding periods in 1987, 1988 and 1989 are as follows:

Period 1 January-31 March

Garda Division

1987

1988

*1989

*1990

Robberies

Assaults

Robberies

Assaults

Robberies

Assaults

Robberies

Assaults

Southern

48

40

54

22

69

20

73

30

South Central

46

30

70

29

60

24

48

17

Northern

63

20

77

39

66

39

64

41

North Central

129

42

162

30

171

25

127

4

Eastern

21

14

24

14

15

13

20

13

Total DMA

307

146

387

134

381

121

332

105

*Figures for 1989 and 1990 are provisional.
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