State seeks CEO for agency to tackle gender-based violence

Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris at Saturday's unveiling of An Garda Síochána Monument of Remembrance at Garda Headquarters in Dublin. Picture: Niall Carson/PA 

The State is to advertise within weeks for a chief executive for its new agency to tackle domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence.

It comes as Justice Minister Helen McEntee sought Cabinet approval last week for the text of the legislation to establish the new agency, which has been promised as part of the Government’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to gender-based violence.