Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
1522. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of times that gardaí were called to the scene of suspected murder or suspicious deaths in each county in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022 in tabular form [39908/22]
View answerAs the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including operational policing matters. As Minister, I have no direct role in these matters.
However, to be assistance to the Deputy, 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.
For the Deputy's information, the below table outlines the number of Homicide offences, which refers to all unlawful killings for the past 10 years and for the first quarter of 2022. It is comprised of four subcategories: Murder, Manslaughter, Infanticide and Dangerous driving leading to death.
|
Type of Offence |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
* Q1 2022 |
|
Murder |
51 |
48 |
48 |
27 |
33 |
39 |
39 |
33 |
33 |
22 |
7 |
|
Manslaughter |
8 |
11 |
11 |
9 |
10 |
9 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
|
Infanticide |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dangerous driving leading to death |
29 |
37 |
53 |
47 |
43 |
48 |
39 |
28 |
35 |
21 |
4 |
|
Total |
88 |
96 |
112 |
83 |
86 |
96 |
86 |
67 |
73 |
45 |
11 |
Furthermore, the latest available crime statistics as published by the Central Statistics Office are publicly available at the link below.
data.cso.ie/table/CJQ06.
