Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a breakdown for each related allocation for both years in tabular form. [3501/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Since 2019, around €1m has been allocated by DFHERIS and the HEA to support projects in this area.

Funding is provided to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) - Centre of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in 2021 and 2022, for oversight of work in this area, as part of the HEA grant allocation. My Department has also collaborated with the Department of Justice on a dormant accounts funded project for the NUIG Active Consent programme in 2022. The Department of Justice has secured €189,000 in dormant accounts funding for this project in 2022.

Details of the funding provided by my Department for 2021 and 2022 is set out in the table below.