Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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553. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be provided to a group (details supplied) in County Kildare. [39483/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla has statutory responsibility for the provision of services to victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Tusla provides funding to some 60 services nationally which respond to the needs of victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

Services provided include emergency refuge and support services for individuals and families fleeing domestic violence, community-based domestic violence support services, and rape crisis centres around the country.

In 2017 Tusla provided funding of €264,000 to the service to which the Deputy refers. The organisation has been allocated an additional €10,000 in resources in 2018.

The programme to which the Deputy refers is targeted at perpetrators of domestic violence. Tusla is not directly involved in the funding of this programme.

The additional €10,000 which is being provided to the organisation to which the Deputy refers, will allow the organisation to prepare for delivery of a programme for children who have been exposed to domestic violence.

I strongly support the work of Tusla, and I am committed to supporting the Agency in meeting the needs of individuals who experience domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.