Dr. Kathryn McGarry:

I spoke to one of the women who had worked in a brothel in Dublin and I asked her about evidence of trafficking. She said none of the women she worked with had been trafficked. One of the women, however, was not a European citizen and had asked a sister to organise documentation to allow her to come here to work in the sex industry. That would, perhaps, be regarded as a form of deception.

I did not seek out people who were coerced. I acknowledge that as a limitation of my research. My interviews were not with people who were coerced or trafficked into the sex industry. The difficulty of researching this area has been raised time and again. We do not know enough about those who are coerced because they are difficult to find.