Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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713. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget allocated to the domestic violence support service in 2017; the spend to date; and the expected final spend by the end of 2017. [32361/17]

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. In 2017, Tusla is allocating €22.1 million to these services, an increase of €1.5 million over 2016.

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.

To date this year, Tusla has provided funding of approximately €10.13 million to domestic violence services. Allocation of funds for the remainder of 2017 will be confirmed in due course.

At all times, Tusla’s key priority is to ensure that the needs of victims of domestic violence are being met in the best way possible.