Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In 2016 Tusla is providing €20.6 million to fund the provision of supports for those affected by domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Sixty services throughout the country are being supported from this fund. Some €12 million is being provided for emergency refuge and support services, almost €5 million is being provided for community-based domestic violence support services, while €4 million is being provided for rape crisis centres. Tusla is being granted an increase of €37 million in 2017. It will result in increased expenditure on the work it does in various areas throughout the country such as the provision of funding for 147 family units of emergency refuge space and eight family units of emergency non-refuge space. In the course of this year eight additional family units of accommodation, six additional units of emergency refuge accommodation in Dublin and Kildare and two emergency safe housing units in Sligo were funded by Tusla. As I mentioned, funding of €950,000 has been provided in 2016-17 for the "What Would You Do?" campaign which was launched by the Tánaiste. I hope this will make a real impact on awareness of the shameful conduct of domestic violence.

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