Councillors remember Seema Banu and her two children who died in Ballinteer domestic incident in 2020
The refuge, the exact location of which is not to be advertised to protect service users, comes some 17 years after it was first mooted at council level, outgoing Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Cathaoirleach Mary Hanafin told the meeting.
Council officials noted that the news came eight years after Ireland signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention. Officials said victims of domestic violence had to leave the council’s administrative area to seek refuge. They said the local authority itself and Tusla had separately reviewed available supports and concluded that a refuge was needed.The council said it had identified a site in conjunction with Sonas, which provides frontline services to women and children experiencing domestic violence.
A number of speakers paid tribute to Ms Hanafin, who had given a commitment on her election as Cathaoirleach that she would progress the refuge. She said she was glad the women who worked on the project “had the sense not to ask publicly where this is”. However, Cllr Melisa Halpin told the meeting that while the selection of a site and commitment to provide a refuge were welcome, it was nearly a decade in detailed planning and Ireland was still not meeting the standards of the Istanbul Convention. She said a further 12 such refuges were needed.
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