Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 May 2022
372. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the total number of convictions for offences contrary to sections 2 to 6, inclusive, and 9 to 12, inclusive, and 15 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 for the years 2015 to 2021 inclusive; the total number of those convicted under each heading in each year who were non-nationals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21814/22]
View answerAs the Deputy will be aware, under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts is the responsibility of the Courts Service, which is independent in exercising its functions, which include the provision of information on the courts system.
However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries made and the Courts Service has informed me that the attached table sets out the number of persons and number of offences where convictions were recorded for offences contrary to sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 15 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 for the years requested. I am advised that there are no convictions in the District Court for Section 9, Section 11 and Section 12.
Please note that it is not possible for the Courts Service to provide statistics on nationalities.
I am further advised that some offences have been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Court. At this time, the system in use by the Courts Service in the Circuit Courts is ("ICMS") a Lotus Notes database and cannot produce reports for specific offences. The only reports which are available are by offence category rather than for individual offences and categories of offences can contain multiple offences.
I am informed that the Courts 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.
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Jan – Dec 2015 |
Jan – Dec 2016 |
Jan – Dec 2017 |
Jan – Dec 2018 |
Jan -Dec 2019 |
Jan – Dec 2020 |
Jan – Dec 2021 |
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Offence |
Section |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
No of Offences |
No of Persons |
|
Assault |
Section 2 |
908 |
769 |
885 |
726 |
898 |
759 |
965 |
804 |
950 |
774 |
767 |
611 |
843 |
699 |
|
Assault - impact casued to body Section 2 Non-Fatal |
Section 2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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|
Assault causing harm |
Section 3 |
473 |
442 |
482 |
439 |
494 |
453 |
508 |
467 |
535 |
500 |
390 |
359 |
451 |
417 |
|
Causing serious harm |
Section 4 |
2 |
2 |
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Threatening to kill or cause serious harm |
Section 5 |
38 |
33 |
44 |
36 |
55 |
48 |
63 |
52 |
52 |
48 |
63 |
53 |
102 |
88 |
|
Threatening to injure another with a syringe |
Section 6(1)(b) and (4) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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Sprays/Pours etc. blood etc. onto another |
Section 6(2)(a) and (4) |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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|
Intentionally spraying/pouring etc. contaminated blood onto another |
Section 6(5)(b) and (d) |
1 |
1 |
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Harassment/Stalking |
Section 10(1) and (6) |
28 |
25 |
31 |
30 |
35 |
33 |
40 |
38 |
51 |
45 |
32 |
31 |
33 |
31 |
|
Breach of Court Order (Stalking Offence) |
Section 10(4) and (6) |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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False Imprisonment |
Section 15 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
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Total |
1,452 |
1,273 |
1,447 |
1,236 |
1,488 |
1,299 |
1,577 |
1,362 |
1,601 |
1,380 |
1,255 |
1,057 |
1,434 |
1,240 |
