Written answer
Drug Dealing
The Minister said the Department does not collate crime statistics, directing the Deputy to Central Statistics Office data and publications.
387. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of incidents of criminal damage, arson and threats to kill or cause serious harm recorded in the Cork City division in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026 that were assessed as connected to the collection or enforcement of drug-related debts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67945/26]
Comment on this
The Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration does not collate or publish crime statistics. That responsibility rests with the Central Statistics Office (CSO), established under the Statistics Act 1993. Under Section 13 of the Statistics Act 1993, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) is fully independent in its role of issuing statistics.
All of the CSO's recorded crime statistics are available at: data.cso.ie/product/RC
The report titled CJA11: Recorded Crime Incidents provides recorded crime information broken down to Garda station level and by type of offence. This is available from the link: data.cso.ie/table/CJA11
Furthermore, the CSO publishes quarterly bulletins on recorded crime and these are also available from the CSO website at: www.cso.ie/en/statistics/crimeandjustice/