Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Domestic and Sexual Violence: Discussion

3:40 pm

Ms Margaret Martin:

I wish to comment on the perpetrator programmes. The experience of Women's Aid very often has been that there has been a change in behaviour, but what happens is that the physical abuse will sometimes reduce, but the psychological and sexual abuse does not.