406 Mr. Morley asked the Minister for Justice the number of attacks by criminals on people's homes which were reported to the Garda since January 1990, in counties Mayo, Galway, Sligo and Roscommon; and the number of prosecutions that followed arising out of these attacks. [1115/96]

I assume that the Deputy is referring to attacks on elderly people in their homes. In this regard, I am informed by the Garda authorities that the number of crimes nationally in which the injured party was 65 years or over, living alone in a remote area and where some form of confrontation took place is as set out in the table below: