Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that has been allocated to organisations that provide services that combat domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form. [46498/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The response to Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (DSGBV) is a cross Departmental and multi-agency issue with overall policy coordinated by the Department of Justice. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of DSGBV. My Department provided the following funding to Tusla for the provision of DSGBV services:

In addition, further supports of up to €2m were made available by Tusla to DSGBV service providers for once-off costs mainly that have arisen as a result of Covid-19.

The Department of Justice provides funding to promote and assist the development of specific support services to victims of crime, including domestic and sexual crime, within the criminal justice system. This year, funding of more than €3.2 million has been secured for raising awareness of DSGBV of which over €1.4m is to organisations whose primary focus is on combatting DSGBV. Furthermore, over €4.2 million is allocated to support victims of crime. This includes funding allocated to organisations whose remit is supporting victims of crime in general. Within this amount, over €2.8 million is granted to organisations whose primary focus is supporting victims of DSGBV.

I do not currently have the tabular information sought be the Deputy in respect of the funding by Department of Justice that it allocated to DSGBV services in previous years. I am informed that the Department of Justice will write directly to the Deputy with this information.