Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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925. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a progress report will be provided on employing the promised domestic abuse worker in Tusla in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11558/20]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla currently provides support, coordination and funding to almost 60 organisations around the country that deliver front line services to victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

In 2019, I was pleased to be in a position to provide Tusla with €1.5 million in additional funding for the provision of domestic sexual and gender-based violence services. Part of this funding was allocated for the employment of 12 additional outreach workers for women and children affected by domestic violence in identified areas of need in Counties Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Galway and Wicklow. This funding is being maintained in 2020.

Following a needs analysis project by Tusla in 2019, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown was identified as requiring access to additional services. Tusla conducted a commissioning process to identify service providers that would lead on service provision, which was completed in September 2019.

As the procurement of outreach workers is an operational matter, I have requested that Tusla respond to you directly on this issue.