'Not much, if anything' has changed on sexual violence policy for 21 years

Justice Minister Simon Harris said both sexual violence and domestic violence prevalence surveys will be repeated alternately every five years. Picture: PA

“Not much, if anything” has changed since the last research on sexual violence in 2002, the Dáil has heard.

During statements on a “stark" but "unsurprising” survey from the CSO, which found that 18% of adult women and 3% of adult men have been raped, Justice Minister Simon Harris said figures until now did not reflect the true extent of the problem.