The National Task Force on Violence against Women's report of 1997 set out a blueprint for a national strategy on violence against women and led to the establishment of the National Steering Committee on Violence against Women which is chaired by the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
The purpose of the steering committee is to provide a multidisciplinary, multi-agency and cohesive response to the problem of violence against women and in so doing to progress the recommendations of the task force. My Department is represented on the committee as is the Health Service Executive.