Ms Caitríona Gleeson:

To answer the member's question, while I am not a sociologist, we do not know the half of it. We know little of the horrors in homes in Ireland. As a country, we have grown up in recent years. I commend this committee on raising domestic violence issues. SAFE Ireland and our members have been working for 40 years, although I have not worked quite that long. We do not know the half of it, but we are starting to lift the veil. Once we lift the veil and start to get into the heart of violence in the home, we have the potential to heal violence across our society because it is from the home that we learn.