Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-05
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David Stanton (FG), Cork East

I thank the Minister for her words earlier. I want to commend her on the work she has done with respect to the increased number of refuge places. I ask her again to redouble the work on the availability of violent pornography. I agree with the Minister that it has a pernicious effect. I have been reading some reports on it recently and it is very scary and frightening. I ask that the Minister redouble her work on that issue and on making the crime of coercive control more widely known about. Many people do not know what it is and do not know that they or their family are suffering from it. It is, again, pernicious that it is happening. We brought it in as a crime. I have a later question on this issue which will not be reached. I would be interested in making people aware of what it is so that people can be rescued out of it. Very often, people do not realise that they are in it, nor do their relations. I am glad to see that An Garda Síochána is taking it seriously and has been trained in it, and that quite a number of prosecutions have occurred in that area.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-05