Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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995. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla initiated and completed a review of emergency domestic violence services in the greater Dublin area; and when a report on the same will be published. [1461/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has statutory responsibility for the provision of support services to victims of domestic, sexual and gender based violence.

Tusla provides funding to 59 organisations nationally which deliver front line services to victims of domestic and sexual violence. Twenty-two of these organisations provide specialist emergency accommodation to victims of domestic violence.

In 2018, as part of the planning processes to develop services for victims of domestic violence, Tusla commenced the process to review emergency domestic violence accommodation provision in the Dublin region. It will inform Tusla's project to review specialist domestic violence accommodation nationally.

Tusla has advised me that this project to review domestic violence in the Dublin region will be completed by Quarter 4, 2019. I expect Tusla to publish the report once it has considered it.