Ms Maeve Lewis:

It is going to be of huge benefit because a big part of its work will be policy, in particular in regard to the justice system and access to criminal justice processes. It will also be a funding agency for agencies like One in Four, the Rape Crisis Centres and so on that are working with sexual and domestic violence. It will improve standards and it will be looking at standards of service provision. As the Department of Justice got an extra €12 million in the recent budget with regard to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, we are hoping funding will be a little freer than it is, for example, in the Department of Health.