Departmental Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 March 2022

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Questions (109)

Seán Canney

Question:

109. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the number of house and farm burglaries carried out in each county in each of the past five years; the number of convictions for these crimes in the same years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16902/22]

Written answers

Minister for Justice

As the Deputy will be aware, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics. The CSO also continues to work with An Garda Síochána to address quality issues in the underlying sources used to compile the statistics.

I can inform the Deputy that the specific breakdown requested is not available as a burglary of a house on a farm would be recorded as location type ‘house’ rather than ‘farm’ in order to meet the legal definition of a burglary. The table at the link details the number of burglaries by Garda Division for the period in question.

Burglaries by Garda Division

Regarding the number of convictions, the breakdown sought by the Deputy is not available as the system codes used by the Courts Service are based on those used by An Garda Síochána. The document at the link, furnished to me by the Courts Service, details the number of offences and the number of persons where convictions have been recorded by District Area.

Burgulary Convictions

Furthermore, it is worth noting, when considering the attached figures, that the Court Service can only provide data in relation to where offence codes provided on the system were used by prosecutors. Prosecutors may have used uncoded free text offences and any such offences would not be included in the data provided.

Finally, the Deputy may be aware that on 29 March 2022, the CSO published crime statistics for Q4 of 2021 which are available publicly at the link below.

www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rc/recordedcrimeq42021/