An Garda Síochána

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Questions (554)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

554. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of times that gardaí were called to scenes and incidents in emergency departments in the State in each of the past five years by county in tabular form. [58949/22]

View answer

Written answers

Minister for Justice

As 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. As Minister for Justice, I have no direct role in these matters.

On foot of the Deputy's question, contact was made with An Garda Síochána to seek the specific information sought. I am advised by the Garda authorities that a search of the PULSE system was conducted to identify any crime incident reported nationwide since 01/01/2018 whereby the associated location type was ‘Hospital’.

I am also advised that the number of incidents reported by Garda Division in each of the past 5 years is outlined in the table below.

Garda Division	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022**
Cavan/Monaghan	14	22	16	*	21
Clare	*	15	*	13	*
Cork City	80	79	89	66	64
Cork North	*	*	*	*	*
Cork West	*	*	*	*	*
DMR Eastern	29	19	17	19	26
DMR North Central	157	135	96	68	90
DMR Northern	52	59	62	43	43
DMR South Central	139	162	126	102	153
DMR Southern	52	58	38	41	55
DMR Western	64	49	56	58	66
Donegal	33	42	19	23	27
Galway Division	55	86	84	60	56
Kerry	29	38	40	33	25
Kildare Division	16	20	20	11	30
Laois/Offaly	35	41	47	36	27
Limerick	56	68	51	64	70
Louth Division	56	33	39	37	59
Mayo/Roscommon/Longford	24	23	29	32	27
Meath Division	*	*	*	*	*
Sligo/Leitrim	28	28	30	24	28
Tipperary	20	18	14	23	28
Westmeath Division	24	18	32	28	34
Wexford Division	25	16	16	15	25
Wicklow Division	*	*	*	*	*
Grand Total	1067	1100	981	862	1052

* Figures less than 10 are not reported to ensure there are no issues from a data protection perspective.

** Figures were collated based on PULSE data on 23 November 2022. They are operational and may be liable to change. Crime counting rules are not applied to reflect all recorded incidents.