I have been informed by the Garda authorities that statistics on missing persons are compiled on an annual basis, and as a consequence, statistics for the past 12 months are not readily available and could not be compiled without a disproportionate expenditure of Garda time and resources.
In the year 2000, the most recent year for which statistics are available, of the persons reported as missing to the gardaí, 1,806 were accepted by them as genuinely missing. Of these, 22 persons were unaccounted for at the end of last year. I should stress that these statistics are provisional and are subject to change.