Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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705. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the allocation made for domestic emergency refuges and step-down accommodation for 2020. [18159/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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In 2020, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs is providing Tusla with core funding of €25.3m for almost 60 organisations that deliver services for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV). Tusla estimates that additional funding of some €0.75m will also be provided to DSGBV service providers this year, in order to support continuity of service during the current public health emergency arising from covid-19.

Tusla funding includes coordinated supports for services that provide emergency refuge and non-refuge accommodation to victims of domestic violence. Tusla does not provide funding for step down accommodation.

Commissioning of DSGBV services, and allocations to individual service providers, is an operational matter for Tusla. I have asked Tusla to respond to the Deputy with regard to its allocation to emergency refuge accommodation providers in 2020.