Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 May 2023
139. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing enough women’s refuge places to bring Ireland in line with its commitments under the Istanbul Convention. [23515/23]
View answer140. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number of refuge places to 300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23516/23]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together.
Identifying the full-year operational costs for either the provision of refuge places to bring Ireland in line with the commitments of the Istanbul Convention, or for the provision of 300 refuge places, are a matter for my colleague the Minister for Justice.
My Department’s role with regard to Domestic Violence Refuges is the capital funding for their initial design and construction. The calculation of a ‘full-year cost’ for such capital development costs is not possible as it is dependent on the timings of individual project advancements and the costs for each of the individual developments, including cost of site, size of the development and construction costs (bearing in mind inflation).
