Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put funding in place for an outreach rape crisis centre in Navan, County Meath to service the whole county of Meath. [54212/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The HSE funds 42 frontline domestic violence service providers under its policy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence. This includes 20 crisis refuges, 27 domestic violence support services and 16 rape crisis centres. There is at least one refuge providing crisis/emergency accommodation in every HSE region and most are accessible on a 24 hour basis. As this question relates to a specific and local issue, I am referring it to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

By way of background, in 2007, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence – COSC - was established by the government as an executive office of the Department of Justice and Equality. As such, I have no direct policy responsibility in this area.