Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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450. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding allocated by her Department and its agencies, and through any grant systems operated by her Department, in tabular form, for each of the past four years, in relation to assisting support groups, associations or any other such body which assists families who suffer from domestic violence; the total funding drawn down in each of these year, in tabular form, in relation to the stated applications of each group, association or body; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23329/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the tables.

Core funding for domestic violence services is provided by Tusla under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

The funding in the tables above refer in the main to annual funding for services to victims and in particular court accompaniment. These services are ongoing, but organisations apply for funding each year. Also included is funding for awareness raising, which tends to be project based. Again organisations apply on an annual basis. Both schemes are advertised in the national press.

The amount sought by You are Not Alone in 2012 is not available. Offaly Domestic Violence Support Service received slightly more than they applied for in 2013, because a very small additional amount was available for allocation later in the year.

In relation to funding for the domestic violence perpetrator intervention programmes this is negotiated annually with the programme providers before they submit their final proposals for funding. This means that the proposed funding and allocated funding are usually aligned, subject to any funding revisions under the Estimates process. In a number of years allocations were made in a calendar year, but applied to an academic year, so draw downs in the calendar year were greater in two instances than allocations.