Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 776: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding he has allocated to individual projects on domestic violence for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29882/09]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Capital funding is available through my Department's Capital Assistance Scheme to approved voluntary housing bodies to provide accommodation to meet the special housing needs of groups including the elderly, the homeless, persons with disabilities and victims of domestic violence. Given that the accommodation provided by voluntary housing bodies for victims of domestic violence may often be in multi-purpose accommodation or may not be categorised specifically as refuges, a separate figure is not available for capital expenditure on accommodation for victims of domestic violence.

My Department recoups to local authorities 90% of approved current accommodation costs in the operation of homeless facilities, including certain facilities provided specifically to accommodate people who become homeless as a result of domestic violence. The facilities for which my Department has provided funding and the amounts recouped in respect of each project over the past five years are set out in the following table: Revenue funding recouped by Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to local authorities in respect of facilities provided specifically to accommodate people who become homeless as a result of domestic violence.