Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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1040. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs involved in renovating the former Debtors' Prison, Green Street, Dublin 7, into a refuge for victims of domestic violence in view of the current huge shortage of places for victims. [21499/15]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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1041. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs involved in renovating 91A Lower George St, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, into a refuge for victims of domestic violence in view of the current huge shortage of places for victims. [21500/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1040 and 1041 together.

Responsibility for the development and provision of services to support victims of domestic abuse rests with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and are delivered through Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.

Under my Department’s Capital Assistance Scheme, support may be provided, through housing authorities, towards Approved Housing Bodies costs in providing accommodation for persons with specific categories of housing need. It is a matter for individual authorities to prioritise the housing projects to be advanced under the Capital Assistance Scheme. No proposals have been submitted to my Department in respect of the properties mentioned in the Questions.