Eamon Gilmore
Ceist:81 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the new measures, if any, to offer practical and emotional assistance to crime victims, in view of his speech at the Victims of Crime seminar on 10 December 1997, at which he stated these measures would be introduced from 1 January 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3119/98]