Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the projected cost of implementing the Istanbul Convention in full. [18409/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Istanbul Convention is a significant legal instrument in tackling domestic and sexual violence. It has a broad scope involving a range of legislative and administrative actions to be implemented across a range of Government Departments and agencies. Ireland is largely compliant with the Convention. The additional actions necessary to ratify the Convention are set out in a multi-annual action Plan which was published when Ireland signed the Convention on 5 November 2015. These actions are also contained in the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021, published in January, 2016. It is intended that they will be delivered by the first quarter of 2018. The strategy is a whole of Government approach, involving seven Government Departments and a number of State bodies, including Tusla and An Garda Síochána. The Government is committed to the ratification and full implementation of the Istanbul Convention.

Most of the strategy's actions are being delivered within current resource allocations. To disaggregate the cost of Istanbul actions to date from overall budgets in the wide range of Departments and bodies involved would take a disproportionate amount of time. Additional funding, where required, will form part of the normal estimates process. It is not possible at this time to determine projected cost.