Dáil Éireann - Volume 440 - 09 March, 1994

Written Answers. - Detention Statistics.

Mr. Gregory Mr. Gregory

80. Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons detained under the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, in each year since the Act came into force.

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn) Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn): The powers of detention following arrest provided for by section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 came into effect on 1 July 1987. Figures in relation to the number of persons detained in each year since the Act came into force are as follows:

Figures for 1993 are not yet available.

Mr. Gregory Mr. Gregory

81. Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons detained each year since 1971 under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act; the number of such persons who were subsequently charged with an offence in each year; and the number of such persons convicted in each year.

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn) Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn): The number of persons arrested under section 30 of the Offences Against the Stage Act, 1939 in each of the years 1971 to 1993 and in 1994 to date are set out in the following table:

I am informed by the Garda authorities that the other information sought by the Deputy is not readily available from Garda records and would have to be compiled specially at the cost of a disproportionate amount of Garda resources.

Dáil Éireann 440 Written Answers. Detention Statistics.

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