Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the total funding provided for each of the years 2009 to 2014, inclusive, and for 2015 to date by her Department to a refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [21971/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The organisation in question was granted €3,000 in funding in 2009 by my Department through Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence. The funding was towards awareness-raising activities. No funding was provided to this organisation for the years 2010 to 2015 inclusive.

However, the Deputy may be aware that core funding for women's refuges is provided through Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Some further funding for the provision of refuge accommodation my also be paid for and recouped by the local authority in which a refuge operates. The recoupment comes from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.