Listen Back: Legislation will ensure that stalking becomes a 'stand alone offence'

Cavan Monaghan Fianna Fail TD, Deputy Niamh Smyth, says "a lot can be learned" from a new report on gender-based violence that was published on Tuesday. The study - the first of its kind in Ireland - was conducted by UCC and the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, and focused on the experiences of those who've been stalked.

It  found that the majority of victims know the person responsible and Deputy Smyth says that legislation will be progressed to treat stalking as a stand alone offence. Speaking to the Wider View this week, she highlighted how stalking is very often the prelude to threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour on a person or towards them online.

But first, Deputy Smyth began by commending the authors of this latest report.