The irrefutable reality is that sexual violence is horrifyingly normal and we need to act

Statistics show every second woman in Ireland has suffered sexual violence. Not one more survivor’s story is required as proof

Statistics show 52% of females and 28% of males have been subjected to sexual violence.

Wednesday’s launch of the Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey is not just yet more data on sexual violence, rather, it is the data that all other data into the future will be measured against. 

This is prevalence data, undertaken as part of the suite of official statistics of the State. This is the evidence on who we are as a society, the basis for Government action and our measure into the future of its success.