Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is not within the remit of my Department, but my understanding is that the review will be concluded in the new year. I think the timeline that has been set is for it to be done by April. A suite of different actions are being taken at the moment. We have the audit to look at all of the different Departments and services and the support that they provide and how we can put in place a much better structure to make sure that we can drive the implementation of services and bring about much-needed change in this area. We will have the implementation of the review of the second national strategy, which will then feed into the third strategy. The implementation group is working on Supporting A Victim's Journey, which is very specific to people who have been victims of sexual violence and are going through the courts process. As well as that, there is a significant amount of engagement happening. I mentioned meeting with Safe Ireland. I met with countless community and voluntary groups. It is important that we can support them in the work that they are doing. We are currently looking at how we can fund groups in a much better way, as part of the implementation of the O'Malley recommendations. We are considering providing funding for perhaps two or three years so that they can plan ahead and put in place the supports and services. That is something that has been missing. Lots of different actions are taking place and we need all of it to come together because there is a significant amount of work still to do. I am fully committed to that and I know the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is also committed to that.

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