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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to double the number of refuge spaces over the lifetime of the zero tolerance strategy, from 141 to 282. [38171/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am inquiring as to the progress on the strategy that was announced in June 2022, when the Government established a zero-tolerance attitude to gender-based, sexual and domestic violence. One of the commitments was that we would double the number of refuge spaces available. Will the Minister give us an update on how that is progressing?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for his interest in this very important issue. As he has mentioned, one of the overarching goals of the Zero Tolerance strategy is to ensure that everyone across the country who needs a refuge space will have access to one. Our commitment to double what we currently have represents the fastest ever expansion of refuge accommodation in this country. Earlier this month,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the fact that two years ago, in June 2022, the Government published its strategy, Zero Tolerance. The House will be aware that the central aim of that strategy was the adoption, as a society and a State, of a zero-tolerance attitude to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. What was beneficial about the strategy that was launched was that it was accompanied by an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The ambition is to double the number in the lifetime of the strategy, which is only two years into its progress. We have not achieved that yet but I am confident that we will achieve it over the lifetime of the strategy. We are also developing safe houses. This is not just about providing wraparound support within the refuge itself. It is also about making sure that there are step-down...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I was pleased to read the implementation report in respect of 2023, which said that the number of safe homes, as it referred to them, had doubled in 2023 with 17 additional safe homes coming on stream, bringing the total number to 49 by the end of the year. I am also pleased to hear that the Minister expects we will be able to achieve the objective of the strategy, which is to double the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. As she knows, it has been announced that we now have our site and our build in Carlow. We have an old house that is being done up. We are working with Cuan. The lead agency is Amber Women's Refuge. The Minister was on KCLR and I have been on to her about this women's refuge every few weeks for the last few years. It is a really good story for Carlow. The Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I support the sentiments expressed by my colleagues and acknowledge what the Minister has undertaken. I will point out that, in my time in public life, I have never seen the level of violence towards women and mothers of children that I have seen in the past couple of years and in the past two years in particular. There is also this friction whereby the victim has to pursue the other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputies. I have said this many times and I will say it again; I believe we are dealing with an epidemic. It is in every town, village and corner of our society. More women are coming forward. It is mainly women although men are, of course, also victims. It is a very positive thing. We need to be able to respond with resources and supports. It is not just about providing...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: To finish out that point, that is why Ms Quigley's opening statement particularly picked up on the recommendation from the citizens' assembly that there be a body in the Department of the Taoiseach.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I noticed throughout the statement and when Ms Quigley talks about interagency partnership how there is a creeping centralisation towards very health-specific services that any of us on the ground will have seen. I represent Dublin 1 and Dublin 7. As everyone has said today, the issues are so much more complex. What Ms Quigley has described is similar to an extent to the model for the...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Housing First is for people who are in a particular crisis moment and is not always related to this issue.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: They are the people who know how their lives work and they can inform that policy.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I have some questions for the Prison Service. My questions will be intensely practical because I am trying to understand how the prisons work with regard to testing, access to naloxone and the issue of the recent mass overdose. We heard from other contributors at this committee that there is always a struggle to get suitable testing on site for anything, whether it relates to festivals or a...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that May of this year?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How does the Prison Service access the substances for testing?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Do the prisoners consent to that?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is not really consent.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Has the Prison Service explored ways of testing that would allow for a consent-based process?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The Prison Service is testing the person. I was asking whether it tests the substance.