Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raise the matter of women’s refuges in the Cavan-Monaghan area. Counties Cavan and Monaghan are among the nine counties not to have such a facility. I work very closely with Safe Ireland, which has done incredible work, particularly Mary McDermott, on this issue. It presented a blueprint document that all of our local authorities can work and strive towards on designing centres of domestic violence prevention and response. The blueprint gives us all a design we can follow. More importantly, I ask all the arms of the State in counties Cavan and Monaghan, including the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Tusla, to come behind our local authorities. There is a willingness to deliver it among all these great people. I ask that the push to deliver this, which is already coming from the Government, continues.

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