Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The convention has an article in it that states victims of domestic violence should not have to travel more than 30 minutes to a refuge centre. We have people who are out of the county and could be for weeks with situations like that. It obviously creates problems because victims perhaps feel they have to go back to get the children back in to school and perhaps move back into a potentially abusive situation again. That is the problem. I know there is Tusla-----

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