Departmental Data

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Questions (102)

Martin Kenny

Question:

102. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the number of adult cautions by county in each of the years between 2016 and 2022 in tabular form. [61138/22]

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Written answers

As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, which includes all operational policing matters and the management of the Garda PULSE system. As Minister I play no role in these independent functions, however, to be of assistance I have contacted the Garda authorities and have been advised of the following.

The Adult Caution Scheme is a non-statutory scheme agreed between, and administered by, An Garda Síochána and the Director of Public Prosecutions. As the Deputy will also appreciate, the DPP is fully independent in her functions and I have no role in the operations, oversight or governance of the office of the Director.

The below table provides the number of Adult Cautions by County for the years 2019 - 2022 to date.

It should be noted that a record of the particular date in which offender status was updated to Adult Caution has only been recorded on PULSE since 2019. Therefore figures prior to 2019 are unavailable.

	2019	2020	2021	2022
Carlow	131	79	68	76
Cavan	90	84	92	105
Clare	75	108	108	89
Cork	709	695	847	882
Donegal	137	302	197	253
Dublin	1,231	1,679	1,707	1,704
Galway	267	253	301	374
Kerry	161	112	141	130
Kildare	167	189	222	245
Kilkenny	116	97	96	104
Laois	93	89	104	89
Leitrim	37	43	19	37
Limerick	256	374	293	283
Longford	37	54	84	69
Louth	135	177	138	160
Mayo	109	111	111	119
Meath	109	92	211	124
Monaghan	91	103	80	82
Offaly	125	106	105	91
Roscommon	36	39	39	30
Sligo	67	82	75	85
Tipperary	167	122	233	195
Waterford	291	237	257	334
Westmeath	115	172	112	189
Wexford	136	198	179	228
Wicklow	73	114	221	133

Figures are operational and liable to change. Data is as recorded on PULSE to 2 December 2022.