Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding and resources she will ring-fence in budget 2017 to ensure the full implementation of the Istanbul Convention, the second national strategy on gender-based violence and the victims Directive, as promised in the programme for Government. [11175/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, which contains a range of legislative and administrative actions, including those actions required for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, was published in January. The strategy is a whole of Government approach aimed at combatting domestic and sexual violence and its implementation is a priority for my Department. Many of the strategy's actions are the responsibility of other Government Departments and agencies. The strategy was devised in such a way that all of the actions in the strategy can be delivered within current resource allocations. As stated in the Strategy at the time of publication the Strategy's action plan is intended to be a living document which will continue to be revised, added to and updated on an ongoing basis. The resourcing of additional actions will form part of the normal estimates process. Likewise funding for the requirements of the Victims Directive will form part of the estimates process.