Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Ms Laura Galligan:

If there is a potential chance that we could prevent a domestic homicide, as an organisation, we should strive towards that. If we recognise that a partner in a previous domestic violent relationship is in a new domestic violent relationship, we should be able to offer support and services to that victim in order that we could, hopefully, prevent further incidents and, in the worst case, a homicide from happening.