Written answers
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Domestic Violence
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 19 January 2023, when he will establish a network of family contact centres to enable supervised meetings or handovers of children between parents who are no longer together or where domestic abuse has occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5483/23]
Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My Department conducted a scoping exercise in 2019 following the publication of the Barnardos/ One Family Pilot Child Contact Centre Report.
As the Deputy is aware the Covid-19 pandemic significantly affected the manner and type of services provided by many public bodies. Due to this disruption information in the scoping review is now significantly out of date.
My Department continues to liaise with the Department of Justice and to consider the needs of children impacted by parental separation as a result of domestic abuse as part of the national 'Zero Tolerance' strategy.
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, accepts child protection referrals regarding children who have witnessed or been affected by domestic abuse and conducts assessments where these referrals reach the appropriate threshold.
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