Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of additional ring-fenced funding to be provided to domestic violence services under budget 2021 in order that services can respond adequately to increased incidence of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37126/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that no additional ring-fenced funding has been provided to my Department towards domestic violence services in Budget 2021.

However, I can inform the Deputy that my Department is continuing to implement relevant actions from the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, launched in January 2016. The strategy is a whole of Government response aimed at tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.