Domestic Violence

Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Questions (1520)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

1520. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of times that gardaí were called to the scene of domestic violence in each county in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [39906/22]

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Minister for Justice

I have sought the information requested by the Deputy from the Garda authorities, however, the information was not available in time. I will write to the Deputy once the information is to hand.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51

I refer to your recent Parliamentary Questions number 1520 for answer on 26th of July 2022. In that question you sought the number of times that gardaí were called to the scene of domestic violence in each county in the State in each of the past 10 years and to date in 2022.

As you will recall, I sought the information from the Garda authorities but it was not available within the timeframe permitted and I undertook to contact you again once the information was to hand. I have now received a reply and I am happy to relay the information received to you.

I am informed by Garda authorities that to determine the number of Domestic Abuse calls reported in a given timeframe a number of criteria are applied. The counts in the table below are a combination of the following:

The PULSE incident type is one of:

- Breach of Interim Barring Order

- Breach of Protection Order

- Breach of Barring Order

- Breach of Safety Order

- Domestic Dispute - No Offence Disclosed

- Breach of Emergency Barring Order

- Or is of any incident type, but with a recorded motive of ‘Domestic Abuse’.

In addition to the above, incidents of any type recorded on PULSE which were the result of a call for assistance where the dispatcher assigned the type as ‘DVSA’ (Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault) are also included.

I’m informed that given some changes in recording over the years, the Garda Síochána Analysis Service (GSAS) will report figures from 2019 onwards by Garda division.

The table below shows counts of incidents reported per Garda division

Division	2019	2020	2021	2022*
D.M.R. Eastern	1,003	1,283	1,281	724
D.M.R. North Central	1,421	1,759	2,040	1,103
D.M.R. Northern	3,401	4,024	4,239	2,397
D.M.R. South Central	1,346	1,458	1,564	944
D.M.R. Southern	2,829	3,017	3,192	1,911
D.M.R. Western	3,843	4,519	4,935	2,778
Kildare	1,615	1,906	1,963	1,337
Kilkenny/Carlow	756	1,013	1,188	658
Laois/Offaly	1,203	1,423	1,647	950
Meath	1,454	1,567	1,707	982
Waterford	1,100	1,276	1,419	894
Westmeath	865	930	973	628
Wexford	915	1,237	1,481	927
Wicklow	944	1,052	1,009	646
Cavan/Monaghan	1,084	1,162	1,464	807
Donegal	1,054	1,200	1,338	765
Galway	1,468	1,766	2,190	1,241
Louth	1,550	1,994	2,291	1,272
Mayo	673	756	954	688
Roscommon/Longford	802	1,057	1,168	591
Sligo/Leitrim	652	903	1,073	575
Clare	780	841	976	589
Cork City	2,114	2,331	2,338	1,540
Cork North	906	1,020	1,165	688
Cork West	441	579	614	367
Kerry	1,073	1,189	1,234	768
Limerick	1,931	2,130	2,524	1,623
Tipperary	920	1,156	1,346	744

* to 25 th July 2022

Figures were collated based on PULSE data as of 1:30am on the 26th July, 2022. They are operational and may be liable to change. Crime counting rules are not applied to reflect all recorded incidents.

I hope this information is of assistance.