Domestic violence — the issue revealing the arrogance of power

WITH two totally unrelated strokes of a pen, the Government has managed to do what it has failed abjectly to do in the past decade, and that is to put domestic violence seriously on the political agenda.

The importance of this issue was so far off the political radar as far as this Government is concerned, it wasn’t even a blip.

The National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA) was in danger of closing its doors because it had been refused funding so modest it could only be described as peanuts.