Cecilia Keaveney (Fianna Fail)

I just want to put my tuppence worth in. Support for the victims of domestic violence, which is often sexual violence, is very important. In Letterkenny hospital there is a great multidisciplinary team which is helping people go before the courts and giving them the confidence to deal with matters. It is all very well to talk about sex offender registers, but at the other end of the scale we must look after the victims of sex offenders and get them to come forward. I commend the work being done in the Inishowen Women's Outreach centre. It has stated that in the first three months of this year 59% more women came forward. In an area which has the population of County Leitrim and which is the size of County Louth basically, 32,000 people, it is a vote of confidence in this organisation that those who have suffered abuse have a service they feel confident about going to locally, and this is replicated throughout the country.