Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the funding that is available from his Department for domestic violence support programmes including the provision of help lines, shelters and advice centres; the amount that was provided to such programmes in each year from 2006 to date in 2010; and the number of centres or projects that benefited from this funding in each year 2006 to date in 2010 on a county basis [24366/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested by the Deputy, to the extent available, are set out in the following tabular statement. The table outlines funding for services relating to domestic violence provided by Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, by the Victims of Crime Office and by the Probation Service. The funds were provided for organisations to assist them to provide support to victims of domestic violence, to raise awareness of the domestic violence problem primarily at local level and to provide intervention programmes for perpetrators of domestic violence.

The table is based on the best available information but some points need to be kept in mind in interpreting it. The county of the funded organisation is based on the address of the organisation. At the same time many of the organisations based in one county run programmes, and provide outreach services, in neighbouring counties. Indeed some of the organisations concerned provide a nationwide service. In addition points need to be kept in mind in interpreting the information for the years 2006 and 2010. In relation to 2006, it was not possible for Cosc to obtain details of amounts granted for local awareness raising in 2006 mainly because that year preceded the establishment of Cosc in 2007. The information sought by the Deputy cannot be easily extracted from voluminous records and to do so would require the deployment of a disproportionate amount of resources. As regards 2010, Cosc's grants for local awareness raising and some domestic violence perpetrator intervention programmes cannot be included in the table because decisions have not yet been taken in relation to the grant applications for the current year.