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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 12 Nov 1996

Vol. 471 No. 4

Written Answers - Crime Figures.

Noel Davern

Question:

231 Mr. Davern asked the Minister for Justice the annual figures for drug related arrests and convictions and the amounts and types of illegal drugs seized in the Garda district of Cahir, County Tipperary in each of the years from 1994 to 1996. [21028/96]

Noel Davern

Question:

232 Mr. Davern asked the Minister for Justice the annual figures for drug related arrests and convictions; and the amount and types of illegal drugs seized in the Garda district of Clonmel, County Tipperary in each of the years from 1994 to 1996. [21029/96]

Noel Davern

Question:

233 Mr. Davern asked the Minister for Justice the annual figures for drug related arrests and convictions; and the amounts and types of illegal drugs seized in the Garda district of Tipperary in each of the years from 1994 to 1996. [21030/96]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 231, 232 and 233 together.

I am informed by the Garda authorities that the information for 1994 to 1996 which is readily available is:

Cahir

1994

1995

1996

Arrests

3

11

2

Prosecutions

1

7

Nil

Types of Drugs

Cannabis — 20 grammes

Ecstasy — 85 tablets

Ecstasy — 8 tablets

Cannabis — 20 grammes

Cannabis — 25 grammes

Magic Mushrooms — 1 gramme

Speed Deals — 14

White Substance to be analysed — 41 grammes approximately

Magic Mushrooms — 4 grammes approximately

Clonmel

1994

1995

1996

Arrests

Nil

4

7

Prosecutions

8

13

46

Types of Drugs

Cannabis Resin — 8.5 grammes

Amphetamine — 26 grammes

Cannabis Resin — 143 grammes

LSD — 100 perforations

Amphetamine — 25 grammes

MDMA — 25 tablets

MDMA — 27 tablets

Kotomine — 3 grammes

Tipperary

1994

1995

1996

Arrests

1

1

1

Prosecutions

Nil

1

Nil to date

Types of Drugs

Cannabis — 6 grammes approximately

Cannabis — 3 grammes approximately

Cannabis — 2 grammes

Information on convictions is not readily available and could not be compiled without an inordinate expenditure of scarce Garda time.
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