Domestic violence agency 'doomed' if no survivors are included, warns NWCI

The National Women’s Council of Ireland has says that the agency in its current form will “repeat the mistakes of the past”.

Orla O'Connor, director of the National Women's Council of Ireland, said the agency of the proposed board of must have at least two members of civil society organisations on it. Picture: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

A new agency to tackle gender-based violence is doomed to fail unless survivors are fully included on it, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said.

The statutory agency to tackle domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence (DSGBV) was among the measures promised in the wake Ashling Murphy’s death, and it is due to be up and running next year.