Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 November 2008
346 Deputy Charles Flanagan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide details in tabular format of the number of criminal incidents (details supplied) which were gangland related annually from 1994 to 1998 and from 2004 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41270/08]
Amharc ar fhreagraIt is not possible, without the expenditure of an inordinate amount of time and resources, to provide statistics on specific crimes attributable to gangland activity in the manner requested by the Deputy.
The figures for headline offences recorded for each Garda Division from 1994 to 2002 are available in the Garda Annual Reports for those years, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas library.
The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for the compilation and publication of crime statistics by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose. In addition, it has compiled and published a series of quarterly and annual statistics for the period starting with the first quarter of 2003, copies of which are available on the website of the CSO, www.cso.ie.
