Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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1097. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [45843/17]

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. Since its establishment in 2014, Tusla has reviewed domestic, sexual and gender based violence services with a view to providing more equitable and co-ordinated services across the country.

It was in this context that Tusla decided to cease funding of Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) and to take on direct responsibility for the development and maintenance of a database of information recorded on behalf of the Rape Crisis Centres. Tusla has created a comprehensive national dataset, including information from all funded sexual violence services.

This is designed to ensure that Tusla to meets its requirements for data having regard to the Agency's obligations under the Council of Europe Convention for Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention),and the need for high quality data to underpin responses to victims and survivors of domestic, sexual and gender based violence. It was in this context that Tusla decided to cease funding of Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) in 2015.

Tusla has created a comprehensive national dataset relating to domestic, sexual and gender based violence, including information from all funded sexual violence services.

Details of funding provided by Tusla to Rape Crisis Network Ireland are provided in tabular format below: