Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020
1040. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice the amount of State funding provided to charities and support organisations for female and male victims of domestic violence in 2019, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32357/20]
View answerTusla, the Child and Family Agency under the aegis of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has statutory responsibility for the care and protection of victims of Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (DSGBV) and are the primary funders of organisations that deliver front-line services. In 2019, Tusla allocated €25.3 million to Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence services, an increase of €1.5 million over 2018. Tusla provided funding and coordination supports to 59 front-line DSGBV service providers, comprising community-based domestic violence services, rape crisis services, and services that provide emergency refuge accommodation for survivors of domestic violence throughout the country.
My Department provides funding to promote and assist the development of support services to victims of crime, including domestic and sexual crime. In 2019, funding of €1.712m was allocated to a large number of non-governmental organisations across the State in providing a wide range of supports to victims of crime, including sexual and gender based violence. These services provide important information and support to victims of crime, including emotional support, court accompaniment, accompaniment to Garda interviews and to sexual assault treatment units, counselling and referral to other services.
My Department also funds the Choices Programme, a uniform national domestic abuse intervention programme for men. This programme is a group work intervention to support and challenge men engaged in domestic abuse to change their abusive behaviour and attitudes towards their partners, while maintaining and supporting the safety and well-being of women and children as paramount. A key feature of the programme is that it also incorporates a separate partner support service that offers one to one support to the partners or ex partners of the men on the group programme.
I also secured €2.7million in increased funding to combat domestic, sexual and gender based violence, as well as support for victims, in Budget 2021.
Details of the monies paid out to services in 2019 are set out in the table below. The funding is allocated to agencies on the basis of their application and is not made on the basis of gender.
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B.09 |
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Funding for Services to Victims of Crime |
Funding Granted 2019 |
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Adapt Domestic Abuse Services (Limerick) |
€61,000 |
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AdVIC |
€37,000 |
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AnyMan (formerly Amen) |
€20,000 |
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Aoibhneas |
€9,300 |
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Ascend |
€14,090 |
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Barnardos |
€38,000 |
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Beacon of Light Counselling Centre |
€17,000 |
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Bray Women's Refuge |
€15,000 |
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CARI |
€75,000 |
|
Carlow Women's Aid |
€23,000 |
|
Clare Haven Services |
€13,000 |
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Cope Galway Waterside House |
€6,200 |
|
Crime Victims Helpline |
€116,000 |
|
Cuan Saor Women's Refuge Ltd. |
€23,000 |
|
Dignity4Patients |
€11,000 |
|
Domestic Violence Advocacy Centre (Sligo) (formerly Waves) |
€11,000 |
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Domestic Violence Response Galway |
€15,000 |
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Donegal Women's Domestic Violence Service |
€17,000 |
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Drogheda Women's Refuge and Children's Refuge Centre |
€11,500 |
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Dublin Rape Crisis Centre |
€25,000 |
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Dundalk Counselling Service |
€20,000 |
|
Esker House Women's Refuge |
€13,000 |
|
Federation for Victim Assistance |
€70,000 |
|
Greystones Family Resource Centre |
€3,000 |
|
Hope Trust |
€1,000 |
|
Irish Tourist Assistance Service |
€50,000 |
|
Kerry Women's Refuge and Support Services (Adapt) |
€23,000 |
|
Kilkenny Women's Refuge Ltd. (Amber) |
€10,000 |
|
Laois Domestic Abuse Service |
€22,500 |
|
Le Chéile |
€7,500 |
|
Letterkenny Women's Centre (Counselling) |
€7,500 |
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Living Life Voluntary Counselling Centre |
€15,000 |
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Longford Women's Link |
€21,000 |
|
Mayo Women's Support Services |
€22,000 |
|
Meath Women's Refuge |
€34,000 |
|
Missing in Ireland Support Services |
€20,000 |
|
Mná Feasa Domestic Violence Project |
€25,000 |
|
Oasis House Women's Refuge |
€10,000 |
|
Offaly Domestic Violence Support Service |
€12,000 |
|
One in Four |
€113,000 |
|
Rape Crisis Network |
€45,000 |
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Roscommon Safe Link |
€18,000 |
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SAFE Ireland |
€20,000 |
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Saoirse Housing Association |
€21,000 |
|
Sexual Violence Centre Cork |
€26,000 |
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Sonas |
€13,500 |
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Support After Crime |
€143,000 |
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Support After Homicide |
€60,000 |
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Teach Tearmainn Housing Association Company Ltd. |
€5,000 |
|
Tearmann Housing Association |
€17,000 |
|
Victim Support at Court |
€105,000 |
|
West Cork Women's Project |
€8,000 |
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Westmeath Support Services against Domestic Abuse |
€17,000 |
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Wexford Women's Refuge |
€16,000 |
|
Women's Aid Dublin |
€114,500 |
|
Women's Aid Dundalk |
€17,500 |
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You Are Not Alone (YANA) |
€3,000 |
|
€1,707,090 |
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B17 |
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Funding for Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence: Domestic Abuse allocations |
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Choices Programme |
|
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Men's Development Network (MEND) |
€340,460 |
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MOVE Ireland |
€525,000 |
|
North East Development |
€37,267 |
|
€902,727 |
