Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 May 2011
418 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland will sign the new Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence adopted on 7 April 2011 when open for signature by member states at the ministerial session of the Committee of Ministers on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul. [8780/11]
View answerCosc, my Department's National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, actively contributed to all stages of the drafting process in relation to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. I welcome the opening for signature of the Convention and I anticipate that the question of signature by Ireland will be submitted to the Government in the near future.
