Ms Joan Deane:

It is not just domestic violence that creates indirect victims. I represent victims of homicide. What we all forget when there is a homicide in the family are the other children who have not been physically harmed. I am speaking about actual cases where children would have been very young when an older sibling was murdered. When those children come into their teenage years, just like Deputy Finian McGrath said, horrendous problems arise for the family, yet there is no support. I know one family in particular whose son is in dire straits. He could not get access to a public counselling service, so the family has to pay for it.