Key facts

• The 2022 Sexual Violence Survey found that 40% of adults have experienced sexual violence at least once in their lifetime.

• Research by Women’s Aid found that 1 in 5 young women and 1 in11 young men have experienced intimate partner abuse.

• A two-hour reduction in late-night trading hours in New South Wales, Australia, was found to reduce reports of domestic violence by 29%.

• An extension of licencing hours in Northern Ireland has led to a17% increase in alcohol-related crime.

• Studies from Australia found that alcohol is involved in about 30-40% of both intimate partner and family violence.

• National research on domestic abuse in intimate partner relationships found that alcohol was a trigger for abusive behaviour in 34% of cases.

• Past national research found that alcohol was a factor in up to 70%of cases of domestic violence against women.

• Research examining the presence of both child maltreatment and intimate partner violence found that they occurred during the same period in 45%–70% of studies.

• According to the Saol Project report, ‘In Plain Sight’, at least 11,000women in Ireland struggling with addiction are also experiencing domestic violence, with almost 50,000 having endured these simultaneously at some stage in their lives.