I am going back again on the Women’s Aid report. It has already been raised by two Deputies. We could not fail to raise it given the damning figures: an 18% increase in disclosures from last year, making it the highest on record. Women’s Aid is now 50 years on the ground. I would have hoped that it would be redundant by this point and we would not need it anymore and instead it has got worse.

What I want to focus in on here is this. In 1996 and 1997, there was a task force. Following on from that, we had many strategies and Green Papers. However, since that task force published its repot in 1997, 265 women have been murdered by people close to them. The task force identified a number of recommendations. One that jumped out at me was on prevention and help or education for the perpetrator. That has never been dealt with in any of the papers which have followed. Will the Taoiseach respond to that?

The first thing I will do is familiarise myself with that task force report. I appreciate that a lot of work has been done since then but I will familiarise myself with that. We do need to come at this from all angles. There is, of course, a criminal justice element to this. A lot of good legislation has been passed through these Houses on that. The establishment of the agency is important but so is the education and cultural aspect. I have significant concerns, for instance, about how young men in particular are seeing things on social media and are being miseducated about what a healthy sexual relationship is and so on.

If the Deputy will let me come back to her on the recommendations on prevention and health specifically, I will ask the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to take a look at the 1997 recommendations with me.