Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the publication of the review of the accommodation for victims of domestic violence. Across all parties, Members have been pushing for more refuge spaces and more improvements in domestic violence supports at all levels. I really welcome the publication of that review this morning, which highlights that there will be a new agency to support victims of domestic violence, with priority areas for refuges. More than 50 new family spaces have been announced to be prioritised in Sligo, Cavan, Cork, Longford, Balbriggan and elsewhere. This is movement. This is the Government prioritising the gender-based violence issue and making sure that we have the action plan, the supports and the systems in place when the Government announces in April the third strategy against gender-based and domestic violence. It is so important and all of us across this House and the Lower House have been working on this issue. I congratulate all of my Government colleagues on all of the work that they do and I also thank my Opposition colleagues. This is too big an issue to make politics out of it, and I welcome of all of the work that the Government is doing on it.