Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour)
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466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the legislation on prostitution here after the publishing of the Oireachtas justice committee report on prostitution in Ireland; if he has received the clarification he was seeking in Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 8 October 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16693/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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On 6 November last, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality replied, in detail, to my request for clarification and elaboration of recommendations made in the committee's report. The correspondence with the committee has been published on its website.

I have received the advices of the Attorney General on the joint committee's report. More recently I received the views of the Minister for Health and these are being examined.

When the review of prostitution legislation has been completed, I will bring my legislative proposals to Government for approval in the usual way. A policy decision is a matter for the Government at that stage.