Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Domestic and Sexual Violence: Discussion

3:50 pm

Ms Catherine Joyce:

I have concerns about the rhetoric and approach adopted in recent years. Particularly as we go through a recession, we will be told that whatever we do now we cannot have additional resources and there are financial implications. That is a real problem for systems and infrastructure that have been, in the long-term, either ignored or been the subject of massive under-investment. The issue will arise in things like family law reform. We have what looks already to be a very good Bill on family law reform but if we do not have the resources to put in place implementation structures, then we will be here in ten years' time talking about how it did not work.

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