Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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360. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to domestic violence service-providing organisations during each of the years 2005 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [18408/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of domestic, sexual and gender based violence whether in the context of the family or otherwise. At all times, Tusla’s key priority is to ensure that the needs of victims of domestic and sexual violence are being met in the best way possible.

A network of 60 organisations provide services to victims of domestic, sexual and gender based violence in Ireland, including 20 services providing emergency refuge accommodation to women and children and 24 community-based domestic violence services.

Tusla has advised that it is currently engaging with service provider organisations with regard to funding and service arrangements for 2017. To date this year, Tusla has allocated funding of approximately €5.44m to domestic violence services.

Details of total Tusla funding for domestic violence services in the years 2014 to 2016 is set out in tabular format below. Tusla does not hold funding details for domestic violence services prior to 2014 as these services were previously delivered through the Health Service Executive.

*Includes funding transferred from the Department of Environment Community and Local Government.

I was pleased to secure additional funding of €1.5 million for Tusla as part of Budget 2017 to support the further development of domestic, sexual and gender based violence services overall this year.