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Women won 23% of seats in the 2020 General Election, resulting in 36 women TDs, one more than the previous election.
In 2022, there were 25 murder victims recorded by An Garda Siochana.
The 44 victims of human trafficking identified by An Garda Siochana in 2021 comprised of 25 people who were victims of sexual exploitation and 19 victims of labour exploitation.
Satisfaction levels with public services in 2021 were as follows: 70% education, 63% administration and 32% health.
In the 2023 government budget current spending, 31% was allocated to social protection, 29% to health, and 16% to education.
This new publication ‘Ireland's UN SDGs – Goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 2022’ is the sixteenth in a series from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). These publications monitor and report on how Ireland is progressing towards meeting its targets under the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The CSO and government departments and organisations collaborate to bring together data required in these reports for Ireland’s SDGs. This collaboration is formalised under the SDG Data Governance Board, which meets on a quarterly basis. The publication for Goal 16 was developed in collaboration with the Department of Justice.
This sixteenth publication includes data for Ireland for each of the SDG indicators selected by the UN to measure 'Goal 16 Peace, Justice and strong institutions'. Data is available at various levels of detail which include geography, gender, age group and other categories, where applicable.
This report on Goal 16 has 24 indicators which are organised into five user friendly chapters:
The titles of these chapters are based around common themes in the twelve targets which are measured in Goal 16.
The 17 UN SDGs are a set of global development targets adopted by the UN member countries in September 2015 to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. The UN SDGs are driving the global development agenda towards 2030 (Agenda 2030). They address global challenges including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, the aim is to achieve them all by 2030. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and help economic growth, while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The CSO, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri-Ireland) established a project team in April 2017 to engage with a combined UN Statistics Division (UNSD)/Esri research exercise with a goal to develop and deploy a new approach for monitoring the UN SDG Indicators using geographic information systems. The result of this exercise is a new website (Ireland's SDGs Data Hub), hosted on OSi's Geohive platform, which is Ireland’s Central Portal for all SDGs and contains indicators data on the 17 UN SDGs for Ireland. All the indicators in this publication will be loaded onto the Geohive. This work has been formalised through the creation of Ireland’s Institute for SDGs (IIS) - an initiative between the CSO, OSi and Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC). The membership of the IIS is expected to expand with ongoing monitoring and reporting of Ireland's progress towards meeting UN SDGs.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (22 February 2023) published Ireland’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions 2022. This new report has data on 24 indicators for Ireland, divided over five chapters: Victims of Violence; Access to Justice; Corruption; Institutional Framework; and Policy and Legislation. Data are presented in categories relevant to the indicators and geographical location, where possible. The SDGs and their associated indicators are, by design, wide-ranging in their coverage. As a result, the Irish data is provided by a number of sources including government departments, official organisations and international organisations such as the United Nations (UN). This publication for Goal 16 was developed in collaboration with the Department of Justice (DoJ).
Commenting on the publication, Kevin McCormack, Senior Statistician, said:
Freedom of Information
"There were 35,673 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to all public bodies in 2021, up 13% on the previous year. Of these, the Health Service Executive (HSE) received 10,025, the most for any public body. The Department of Social Protection had the second highest number of FOI requests, receiving 1,733 requests in 2021.
Female TDs
According to the Houses of the Oireachtas there were 531 candidates in the 2020 general election, of whom 162 were female. Women were elected to 23% of seats in Dáil Eireann in the 2020 general election. The highest percentage of women elected was 67% in Dublin Rathdown while there were twelve constituencies with no women elected.
Crime
In 2022, there were 25 Murder victims, and a further 15 deaths classified as Dangerous Driving Leading to Death recorded by An Garda Siochana. These figures were down considerably from the previous year which recorded 31 Murder/Manslaughter victims and 32 victims of Dangerous Driving Leading to Death.
The 44 victims of human trafficking identified by An Garda Siochana in 2021 comprised 25 persons for sexual exploitation and 19 persons for labour exploitation. In 2020, 38 victims of human trafficking were recorded.
Satisfaction in Public Services
Ireland was a participant in the 2021 ‘Trust Survey’, which monitors people’s self-reported interpersonal trust and trust in different institutions and levels of government across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Results showed just under one in three (32%) respondents were satisfied with the quality of the health system. The comparable rates for satisfaction with the quality of the administrative services and the education system were 63% and 70% respectively.
Government Budget Allocations
Under 2023 government budget current spending, €78 billion was allocated to all sectors. The three sectors with the largest budgets were social protection (31%), health (29%) and education (16%)".