Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Deputy, on my part and those of the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, that this is a major area of priority in the Department of Justice and across the Government. The Deputy referred to the familicide review and we do have that report in the Department. I have considered it in quite a lot of detail. I met the commissioner of that report and her researcher recently. I intend to engage with the families who fed into that process very shortly. Once I have done that, I intend to then brief the Government and seek to publish the report and a way forward in this regard. I take the Deputy's point about coming from a very low base but we do now have a scenario where we know exactly where we are going. In addition to Wexford, Navan and Dundalk, we now know about the plans for Sligo, Cavan or Monaghan, Cork city, north Cork, west Cork, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Westmeath, Athlone, Portlaoise, Balbriggan, Longford, Offaly and Carlow. I say that in the hope of assuring the House and, most importantly, to assure women, and indeed anybody, at risk of violence that there is now a clear, identifiable plan as to where we are going to deliver the extra spaces and how we are going to get to that number of 280 places during the lifetime of this strategy.

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