Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 5 Mar 1997

Vol. 475 No. 8

Written Answers. - Murder Statistics.

John O'Donoghue

Question:

199 Mr. O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Justice the number of murders or suspected murders; the number of detections in each of the past five years in this regard; and the number of cases in which there was a common perpetrator for two or more offences. [6321/97]

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Owen)

I am informed by the Garda authorities that the available information requested by the Deputy is as follows:

	No. of murders	No. of detections
1995	43	32
1994	25	20
1993	23	20
1992	25	20
1991	23	20

Final figures for 1996 are not yet available but the provisional figure is 41.

I am further informed by the Garda authorities that the information sought relating to the perpetration of two or more offences by the same individual is not readily available and could only be obtained by the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of Garda time and resources.