Our thanks to Steve and Sean for this. An extract:
Minister (Charlie) Flanagan said the act is a key part of a national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.
“It also completes a major step towards Ireland’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention,” he added.
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