Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Safe Ireland is the umbrella body dealing with different groups that provide services for victims of domestic abuse. Is there good collaboration on an all-Ireland basis between the relevant statutory agencies, North and South? Ms Mitchell mentioned the cross-Border dimension to all of this, whether it is accessing services or the perpetrators of violence leaving one jurisdiction and being literally free in the other one. Is there adequate cross-Border, all-Ireland collaboration among the various agencies that have different responsibilities in trying to deal with violence against women?