288. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if data is available on the number and type of complaints made under Coco's law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27412/26]

The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020, also known as Coco’s Law, came into force in February 2021. The Act criminalises the sharing of, or threatening to share, intimate images without a person’s consent, with or without intent to cause harm to the victim.

The Act also seeks to target other areas of harmful communications by creating a new offence of distributing, publishing, or sending a threatening or grossly offensive communication with intent to cause harm and to extend the current offence of harassment to deal with communications about a person, as well as communications to a person.

An Garda Síochána has advised that there are three different incident types captured on the PULSE recording system under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020. Those are:

Distributing grossly offensive communication.

Distributing/publishing/recording intimate image(s).

Recoding intimate image(s) causing interference/alarm.

The attached table offers a breakdown of these incidents from February 2021 to date.

All information contained in this response is based upon operational data from the PULSE system as was available on 1 April 2026.

Figures that are less than 10 are reported as “<10” in line with An Garda Síochána Analysis Services (GSAS) reporting standards.

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